Documentary Chronicles Bishop Michael Portier, the ‘Servant of the South’

May 12, 2022 by Web Master

The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Mobile, Ala., consecrated by Bishop Michael Portier in 1850.

Bishop Portier, a Frenchman, was appointed to lead a vast swath of what is now the southern United States in the early 19th century.