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Black plaque № 24843

Port Lavaca, TX, United States

Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church. Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church The Rev. Augustine Gardet offered the first mass for Roman Catholics in Port Lavaca in 1857 at the R. D. Blossom home. The first church building, constructed in 1865 and destroyed in an 1886 storm, was rebuilt in 1894 and ded

icated as Our Lady of the Gulf. The congregation received its first resident pastor, the Rev. Francis Pallanche, in 1913. A surge in the community's population after World War II led to the constructi

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