Bronze Plaque Dedication
Bronze Plaque Dedication | Notre Dame Seminary
Father Lafleur was the first alumnus of Notre Dame Seminary to give his life in the service of his country and to begin the process for Canonization.
On November 21, 1951, some 95 members of the Notre Dame Seminary Alumni Association met at their Alma Mater. A bronze plaque was dedicated to the memory of Father Lafleur as he was the first alumnus to give his life in the service of his country.
Among those in attendance at the ceremony were his mother and Archbishop Rummel. The plaque hangs in the foyer of the Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana, to this day.
Bronze Plaque dedicated to Fr. Verbis Lafleur, the first alumni of Notre Dame Seminary to begin the process of Canonization. The plaque is featured in the main lobby of Notre Dame Seminary.
On November 27, 1951, Notre Dame Seminary Alumni Association dedicates a bronze plaque in the main lobby to Fr. Verbis Lafleur with his mother, friends, and family in attendance. Fr. Lafleur is the first alumni of NDS to begin the process of Canonization.
Notre Dame seminary celebrates the heroic life and death of Fr. Joseph Verbis Lafleur (1912-44), the first Alumni of Notre Dame seminary to begin the process of Canonization by the Roman Catholic Church. Bishop Douglas Deshotel of Lafayette, LA, led the NDS community, other bishops of Louisiana, and Fr. Lafleur’s family in mass followed by the special blessing of the Bronze Plaque in the lobby of the seminary which commemorates Fr. Verbis Lafleur (Courtesy of Notre Dame Seminary).
Notre Dame seminary celebrates the heroic life and death of Fr. Joseph Verbis Lafleur (1912-44), the first Alumni of Notre Dame seminary to begin the process of Canonization by the Roman Catholic Church. Bishop Douglas Deshotel of Lafayette, LA, led the NDS community, other bishops of Louisiana, and Fr. Lafleur’s family in mass followed by the special blessing of the Bronze Plaque in the lobby of the seminary which commemorates Fr. Verbis Lafleur (Courtesy of Notre Dame Seminary).
Notre Dame seminary celebrates the heroic life and death of Fr. Joseph Verbis Lafleur (1912-44), the first Alumni of Notre Dame seminary to begin the process of Canonization by the Roman Catholic Church. Bishop Douglas Deshotel of Lafayette, LA, led the NDS community, other bishops of Louisiana, and Fr. Lafleur’s family in mass followed by the special blessing of the Bronze Plaque in the lobby of the seminary which commemorates Fr. Verbis Lafleur (Courtesy of Notre Dame Seminary).
Notre Dame seminary celebrates the heroic life and death of Fr. Joseph Verbis Lafleur (1912-44), the first Alumni of Notre Dame seminary to begin the process of Canonization by the Roman Catholic Church. Bishop Douglas Deshotel of Lafayette, LA, led the NDS community, other bishops of Louisiana, and Fr. Lafleur’s family in mass followed by the special blessing of the Bronze Plaque in the lobby of the seminary which commemorates Fr. Verbis Lafleur (Courtesy of Notre Dame Seminary).
A young Junior seminarian, Verbis Lafleur, while attending St. Joseph Seminary in Covington, Louisiana
Verbis Lafleur pictured (bottom, second from left) with fellow seminary classmates