History of St. Bernard Catholic School

St. Bernard School began in 1891 when the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, also called the Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament, arrived at the invitation of Father Antoine Borias. They bought land in 1899 and opened a two-room primary school in 1903. In 1905 they finished a three-story brick building that served until 1959, and in 1944 the parish took over the sisters' property. The school was accredited in 1921 and added a high school in 1926. After closing from 1971 to 1982, it reopened as a K-5 school with 190 students.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 5.0 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.
• Vermilionville — 7.2 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 11 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 11 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.

More markers nearby

• Legend of Bayou Teche / La Legende du Bayou Teche — steps away
• Welcome to Breaux Bridge — steps away
• Breaux Bridge, Louisiana / Pont de Breaux, Louisiane — steps away
• The Bridge of 1852 — steps away