{"id":451,"date":"2009-08-12T15:05:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T20:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/icath\/?p=451"},"modified":"2009-08-12T15:05:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T20:05:27","slug":"fr-deydier-and-life-in-the-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Deydier and life in the &#8220;Missions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this article, which appeared in the Evanville Courier, back in 1997.  It concerned the early days of St. James Church in Haubstadt, Indiana.  A German community visited by a French priest&#8230; These are the kind of things that usually are long forgotten unless someone writes it down&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTWO AREA CHURCH FAMILIES WILL CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARIES<br \/>\nEvansville Courier, The (IN) &#8211; Friday, July 25, 1997<br \/>\nAuthor: Anne Schleper<\/p>\n<p>IN THE LATE 1830s and early 1840s, German Catholics, most of them farmers, in the Gibson County community now called Haubstadt were without a priest and a church.<\/p>\n<p>In 1840, a priest from Evansville visited Catholic families and offered the sacraments to Catholics in Vanderburgh, Gibson and Posey counties.<\/p>\n<p>It was a hard life for a priest in those times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Father Deydier slept quite often under a tree or on straw when he was out on a mission such as St. James. &#8230; he wore an old, torn coat, shoes in poor condition and mended trousers patched by the priest himself,&#8221; according to accounts in the St. James archives.<\/p>\n<p>Deydier eventually founded Assumption Cathedral in Evansville, but the Catholics in Gibson County still longed for a church of their own.<\/p>\n<p>A small log church was built and dedicated in 1845. Twelve years later a new Roman-style, brick church, built on land overlooking Gibson County farmland, was dedicated to St. James the Great and became known as St. James Catholic Church.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this article, which appeared in the Evanville Courier, back in 1997. It concerned the early days of St. James Church in Haubstadt, Indiana. A German community visited by a French priest&#8230; These are the kind of things that usually are long forgotten unless someone writes it down&#8230; TWO AREA CHURCH FAMILIES WILL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}