Word: jeanmard
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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There were mass meetings among Erath's citizens, almost all of them parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church. A group went to complain to Bishop Jules Benjamin Jeanmard of Lafayette, La. Negro children were warned to stay away from catechism classes. Finally Father Labbe suspended the classes altogether...
Back from a meeting of Roman Catholic bishops in Washington came Bishop Jeanmard and took drastic action. To Erath he dispatched a monsignor to read a letter of excommunication at all Sunday Masses of Our Lady of Lourdes. No individual was named, but those who had caused "a scandal to the church, a scandal to the community" by committing violence against Teacher Ortemon were denied the Sacraments, participation in the Church's prayers, and Christian burial? until they repented...
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