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'''Antonio de Sedella, [[Order of Friars Minor Capuchin|O.F.M. Cap.]]''' (1748-19 January 1829) was a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] [[Order of Friars Minor Capuchin|Capuchin]] [[friar]] who served as the leading religious authority of the Catholic Church in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Commonly called '''''Père Antoine''''', he has become a noted figure in the culture of the city. His ghost is said to walk an alley now named for him which runs alongside the city's [[cathedral]].<ref name=NOT /<ref>{{cite web|url=http://goneworleans.about.com/od/famouslandmarks/a/hauntedno.htm|work=About.com|last=Keating|first=Sharon|title=New Orleans Travel|title=Haunted in New Orleans: St. Louis Cathedral Hauntings, Pere Antoine}}</ref> A street and a restaurant in the city's historic [[French Quarter]] are named for him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pereantoine.com/|work=Pere Antoine Restaurant and Bar|title=Home}}</ref> |
'''Antonio de Sedella, [[Order of Friars Minor Capuchin|O.F.M. Cap.]]''' (1748-19 January 1829) was a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] [[Order of Friars Minor Capuchin|Capuchin]] [[friar]] who served as the leading religious authority of the Catholic Church in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Commonly called '''''Père Antoine''''', he has become a noted figure in the culture of the city. His ghost is said to walk an alley now named for him which runs alongside the city's [[cathedral]].<ref name=NOT /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://goneworleans.about.com/od/famouslandmarks/a/hauntedno.htm|work=About.com|last=Keating|first=Sharon|title=New Orleans Travel|title=Haunted in New Orleans: St. Louis Cathedral Hauntings, Pere Antoine}}</ref> A street and a restaurant in the city's historic [[French Quarter]] are named for him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pereantoine.com/|work=Pere Antoine Restaurant and Bar|title=Home}}</ref> |
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[[File:PereAntoineBrewster.jpg|right|thumb|Père Antoine (Padre Antonio de Sedella) at Age Seventy-Four, by Edmund Brewster, New Orleans, 1822]] |
[[File:PereAntoineBrewster.jpg|right|thumb|Père Antoine (Padre Antonio de Sedella) at Age Seventy-Four, by Edmund Brewster, New Orleans, 1822]] |
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Revision as of 00:38, 6 August 2015
Antonio de Sedella, O.F.M. Cap. (1748-19 January 1829) was a Spanish Capuchin friar who served as the leading religious authority of the Catholic Church in New Orleans, Louisiana, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Commonly called Père Antoine, he has become a noted figure in the culture of the city. His ghost is said to walk an alley now named for him which runs alongside the city's cathedral.[1][2] A street and a restaurant in the city's historic French Quarter are named for him.[3]
Life
He was born Francisco Ildefonso Mareno in the town of Sedella located in the Province of Málaga and, as a teenager, entered the Capuchin Order by which he was given the religious name of Antonio.[4] Presumably a short time after his ordination as a priest, he arrived in New Orleans in 1774 as an official of the Spanish Inquisition after the sale of the colony of Louisiana to Spain by France a decade earlier. Named pastor of the Church of St. Louis in the city, after gaining a reputation for rigidity in his early dealings with the people of New Orleans, he later became known to them for his dedication to the prisoners of the city, as well as to its large slave population. He baptized the famous Marie Laveau[5](1801-1881) who later gained a large following as a voodoo priestess and presided over her wedding in 1819. In his depiction of Friar Antonio in the novel Père Antoine (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1956) the writer Edward F. Murphy portrayed him as a rigid ideologue, who was responsible for the destruction of the city due to his refusal to allow the church bells to ring in warning, out of the religious prohibition of this on Good Friday, which was observed that year on the day the fire occurred.}} With the establishment of a diocese by the Holy See for the colony in 1793, the new church was designated as its cathedral, and Friar Antonio was appointed as its Rector by the Spanish Crown.[1]
After the sale of the colony to the United States in 1803, the Holy See appointed the Rev. Louis Dobourg, S.S., as the Apostolic Administrator of the diocese. Sedella did not fully accept his authority until Dubourg traveled to Rome and word was sent in support of his decisions to Archbishop John Carroll, the leading authority of the Catholic Church in the country.
Friar Antonio continued as Rector of the cathedral until his death on 19 January 1829. He was buried in the church three days later.[6]
Notes
References
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
NOTwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Keating, Sharon. "Haunted in New Orleans: St. Louis Cathedral Hauntings, Pere Antoine". About.com.
- ^ "Home". Pere Antoine Restaurant and Bar.
- ^ "Père Antoine". Answers.com.
- ^ Sacramental Registers of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, St. Louis Cathedral
- ^ "Early History". St. Louis Cathedral.