St. Augustine Church (New Orleans)

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St. Augustine Church is a Catholic church in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. The parish was founded in 1841 under the episcopacy of Bishop Antoine Blanc.

St. Augustine Church seen from St. Claude Street

The property on which St. Augustine stands was once part of the Claude Treme plantation estate and is now one of two Catholic parishes in the Faubourg Treme. The church is located on Saint Claude Avenue at Governor Nicholls Street, a block from North Rampart Street and the French Quarter.

When free people of color received permission from Bishop Antoine Blanc to build a church, the Ursuline Sisters donated the property, on the condition that the church be named St. Augustine, after one of their patron saints, Augustine of Hippo. The church was dedicated on October 9, 1842.

The Treme has traditionally been an African-American neighborhood, and the parish is known in New Orleans, along with the neighboring parish of St. Peter Claver, for its association with the black Catholic community. St. Augustine was the home parish of Sidney Bechet. It also hosts the annual Jazz Mass, held in conjunction with the Satchmo Festival, which honors Louis Armstrong's birthday.

St. Augustine Church faced closure after Hurricane Katrina. Parishioners asked hurricane relief volunteers for help, who eventually barricaded themselves in the church's rectory. After two weeks, parishioners and church officials agreed on a compromise and the church was allowed to remain open. [1] A documentary film about the event was made entitled Shake the Devil Off. [2]

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Bishops & Archbishops	Bishops: Luis Penalver y Cardenas \| Francisco Porró Reinado \| Louis-Guillaume Dubourg \| Joseph Rosati \| Leo-Raymond de Neckere \| Antoine Blanc Archbishops: Antoine Blanc \| Jean-Marie Odin \| Napoléon-Joseph Perché \| Francois-Xavier Leray \| Francis Janssens \| Placide-Louis Chapelle \| James Hubert Blenk \| John William Shaw \| Joseph Francis Rummel \| John Patrick Cody \| Philip Matthew Hannan \| Francis Bible Schulte \| Alfred Clifton Hughes

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Schools	Diocesan Seminaries: Notre Dame \| Saint Joseph Colleges & Universities: Loyola \| Our Lady of Holy Cross \| Xavier K-12: Academy of the Sacred Heart High Schools: Archbishop Blenk High School Archbishop Chapelle High School \| Archbishop Hannan High School \| Archbishop Rummel High School \| Archbishop Shaw High School \| Brother Martin High School \| Cabrini High School \| De La Salle High School \| Holy Cross High School \| Holy Rosary High School \| Immaculata High School \| Jesuit High School \| Mount Carmel Academy \| Pope John Paul II \| Redeemer-Seton High School \| St. Charles Catholic High School \| St. Augustine High School \| Saint Mary's Academy \| St. Mary's Dominican High School \| St. Paul's School \| St. Scholastica Academy \| Ursuline Academy \| Xavier University Preparatory School Other: New Orleans Catholic League