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Attractions & Activities: Here's the Church & Here's the Steeple . . . Frommer
St. Patrick's Church
The original St. Patrick's was a tiny wooden building founded to serve the spiritual needs of Irish Catholics. The present building, begun in 1838, was constructed around the old one, which was then dismantled. The distinguished architect James Gallier Sr., designed much of the interior, including the altar. It opened in 1840, proudly proclaiming itself as the "American" Catholics' answer to the St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter (where, according to the Americans, God spoke only in French).

724 Camp St., at Girod Phone: 504/525-4413 .

Attractions and Activities:
Church of St. John the Baptist St. Mary's Assumption
Our Lady of Guadeloupe Chapel--International Shrine of St. Jude St. Patrick's Church
St. Alphonsus Church St. Roch and the Campo Santo
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