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SHREVEPORT, La. Holy Trinity Catholic Church held a special mass Tuesday in honor of Father Jean Marie Biler, one of the five famous “Shreveport Martyrs” during the 1873 Yellow
The sacrifice of five French-born priests who in 1873 died serving patients during a yellow fever epidemic in the United States, mirrors the lives of many during the COVID pandemic
ORLANDO, Fla. (OSV News) When five missionary priests of Brittany, France, volunteered to serve people suffering in Shreveport, Louisiana, they knew they were risking their lives.
Yet they sacrificed their own welfare during a pandemic to journey with the dying and bring the Eucharist to the faithful. Their names might not be familiar to the entire U.S. church, but those in northwest Louisiana know the men as the Shreveport martyrs. They demonstrated heroic charity during the third worst