Jesuit Bend | |
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  Jesuit Bend Location of Jesuit Bend in Louisiana | |
| Coordinates:29°44′54″N90°01′33″W / 29.74833°N 90.02583°W /29.74833; -90.02583 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Louisiana |
| Parish | Plaquemines |
| Elevation | 3 ft (0.91 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 504 |
Jesuit Bend is anunincorporated community inPlaquemines Parish,Louisiana, United States, on the West Bank of theMississippi River.
Members of theSociety of Jesus settled at this location in the early part of the 18th century, a bend in the Mississippi River, hence the name "Jesuit Bend".[1] The Jesuit settlers brought with them from Asia thesatsuma, a loosely skinned seedlesstangerine. Satsumas have been farmed at this locale ever since.[1]
At one point, Jesuit Bend had a station on theNew Orleans, Fort Jackson & Grand Isle Railroad line.[2] It also is the location of theJesuit Bend Wetland Mitigation Bank, an effort to return open water to a fully functioning freshwatermarsh, to help reverse thelongstanding problem of wetlands erosion in theMississippi River Delta.
In October 1955, parishioners at St. Cecilia Church in Jesuit Bend stopped Father Gerald Lewis, an African AmericanCatholicpriest, from celebratingMass because of his skin color.[3][4]Archbishop of New OrleansJoseph Francis Rummel placed the chapel underinterdict.[5] This lasted for two years before a priest, reportedly via subterfuge (promising to never again send a Black priest), obtained signatures from a number of parishioners promising to accept any priest sent to them. Archbishop Rummel approved the chapel's reopening before eventually discovering the ruse, but he wished to save face and not renege on the order. The chapel was destroyed by ahurricane[clarification needed] soon after, and it was never rebuilt.
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