Holy Name of Jesus Church - St. Charles Ave.

by Scott Pellegrin

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Holy Name of Jesus Church - St. Charles Ave.

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Scott Pellegrin

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For more than a century, the great Tudor Gothic bell tower of Holy Name Church with its nave, flying buttresses, and clearstory has announced the presence of the Catholic Church uptown.
In 1886 Fr. John O'Shanahan, S.J., Superior of the Southern Jesuits, envisioned a parish and college across from newly-established Audubon Park. The Cotton Centennial of 1884 had attracted many to the area and suddenly the land once considered the rear of a riverfront plantation was prime property. Before applying to Archbishop Francis Janssens to approve the project, Fr. O'Shanahan promised our Blessed Lord that he would give the title of His Holy Name to the Church if the Archbishop agreed. He must have been persuasive for Archbishop Janssens did designate the Jesuits for one of two new parishes on condition they build a college.

With this permission, Fr. O'Shanahan purchased a section of the Foucher Tract from Joseph Hernandez for $22,500. The section measured four hundred forty-seven feet fronting St. Charles Avenue and ran back all the way past Claiborne Avenue, a depth greater than a mile. The new church parish boundaries extended from Prytania Street to the swamps back of town (roughly Claiborne Avenue) and from Pine Street downtown to Jefferson Avenue.

Six Jesuit brothers skilled in carpentry constructed the first Holy Name of Jesus Church. The building was entirely of wood and fashioned in the Gothic style. Inevitably inferior in size to the Jesuits great Moorish church on Baronne Street known as Immaculate Conception, this Little Jesuits had the distinction of being a true Louisiana product. The lumber used was cut in the state; the stained glass windows were fabricated locally, and the massive 20,000 pound organ was taken from the Cotton Centennial of 1884, right across the Avenue. Jesuit Brothers did the hand-carving and carpenter work, using plans drawn by A. N. Clayton of Galveston, Texas. With a 60-foot wide by 130-foot deep footprint, this first Holy Name could seat 400.

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