Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church

The church's name comes from a devotion that began in a convent. In 1809 a French Ursuline in New Orleans asked the Pope for help and promised to honor Mary under this title if it came quickly. Pius VII granted it, and the statue she ordered reached the city on the last day of 1810. On January 8, 1815, the nuns vowed a yearly Thanksgiving Mass if the Americans won at New Orleans. In 1928 Pius XI named Mary under this title patroness of Louisiana, at the request of the archbishop and the bishops of Alexandria and Lafayette.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 13 mi
  A 170-acre garden and wildfowl refuge on a Gulf Coast salt dome, founded by Edward Avery McIlhenny, on an island that was a Marsh sugar plantation worked by enslaved people before Tabasco and the 1862 salt works.
• Cypremort Point State Park — 19 mi
  A 185-acre Vermilion Bay park reached by road, with a half-mile man-made beach, a marsh boardwalk, shore fishing and a boat launch, and a Chitimacha tradition of a great cypress here.
• Shadows-on-the-Teche — 20 mi
  A National Trust site in New Iberia built 1831 to 1834 for sugar planters David and Mary Weeks, now interpreted around the 1,112 people the Weeks family enslaved, among them Charity Polk, Amos, Patty, Isaac and Louisa.
• Vermilionville — 24 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.

More markers nearby

• Bancker — steps away
• Bancker Ferry — steps away
• Henry / Church — 2.8 mi
• St. Mary Congregational Church — 6.0 mi