JEAN M. BEAULIEU, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Source: Bigraphical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, 1890



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JEAN M. BEAULIEU

Very Reverend Jean M. Beaulieu, who has been pastor of St. John's Roman
Catholic Church at Cloutierville, La., for the past thirty years, was born in
France, on January 10, 1832, and received his literary education at St. Meen. 
His theological training was at Rennes.

He came to America with Bishop August Martin in 1854, being then a sub deacon,
and was ordained priest at Natchitoches, La., on May 28, 1855.  For a year he
acted as assistant priest in the parish of Avoyelles, and in the latter part
of August, 1856, he took charge of St. John's Catholic Church at
Cloutierville, where he has been pastor ever since.  

This church is more than fifty five years old, having been founded between
1830 and 1835, and for a great many years it was visited by priests from
Natchitoches.  In 1847 Father H. Figari became its pastor, and in 1850 Father
G. Guy took charge of it, continuing to be its pastor until 1856.  The church
was rebuilt by Father Beaulieu in 1870, and its present dimensions are 50X90
feet.  Its present membership is about 1,500.  Under the pastorate of Father
Beaulieu the church has had a very prosperous career.