{"id":4981,"date":"2021-03-30T05:58:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T10:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/icath\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:58:41","slug":"cornerstone-of-st-francis-xavier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/?p=4981","title":{"rendered":"Cornerstone of St. Francis Xavier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 30, 1826, Rev. John B. Champomier laid the cornerstone of the present St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in Vincnennes.  It was a Thursday of Easter Week.  <\/p>\n<p>Here is a clipping from the Western Sun &#038; General Advertiser on 4 March 1826, announcing the upcoming ceremony. Click the link to view the clipping.  <sup><a href=\"#footnote_1_4981\" id=\"identifier_1_4981\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Western Sun &amp; General Advertiser, Volume 17, Number 3,Vincennes, Knox County, 4 March 1826, p.3\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Western-Sun-General-Advertiser-Volume-17-Number-3Vincennes-Knox-County-4-March-1826.pdf\">Western Sun &#038; General Advertiser, Volume 17, Number 3,Vincennes, Knox County, 4 March 1826<\/a><\/p>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_1_4981\" class=\"footnote\"> Western Sun &#038; General Advertiser, Volume 17, Number 3,Vincennes, Knox County, 4 March 1826, p.3 <span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_1_4981\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 30, 1826, Rev. John B. Champomier laid the cornerstone of the present St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in Vincnennes. It was a Thursday of Easter Week. Here is a clipping from the Western Sun &#038; General Advertiser on 4 March 1826, announcing the upcoming ceremony. Click the link to view the clipping. 1 Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981","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=4981"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4991,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions\/4991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}