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This African American church was established by missionaries from the Society of the Divine Word. Round-arched openings enliven the simple front-gabled stuccoed building, and a central three-tiered forty-foot tower dominates the facade. The barrel-vaulted chancel features a stunning 1991 mural showing a black Christ figure floating among the twisted limbs of an ancient live oak tree, by artists Auseklis Ozols of New Orleans and Kat Fitzpatrick of Bay St. Louis.