NS0014 Ancien l'eglise catholique de St Jean Baptiste, Corberrie NS (Catholic)

NS0014 Ancien l’eglise catholique de St Jean Baptiste Corberrie, Corberrie, NS.
Visited by JR Spurway, on 23-Sep-2007.

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DATES:

ESTABLISHED:
BUILT: 1841
REBUILT:
CLOSED: 2007
DEMOLISHED: 2018BUILDING:

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HISTORIC OR HERITAGE RECOGNITION::

CANADIAN HERITAGE DESIGNATION: 6238
PROVINCIAL/MUNICIPAL/OTHER HERITAGE: Provincial Heritage Property files, no. 140, Heritage Division, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, NS

ADDITIONAL OR SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES:

Saint John the Baptist Church is valued as the second oldest Roman Catholic Church in Nova Scotia and because of its association with Abbé Jean Mandé Sigogne and Frederick Armand Robichaud. Born in France in 1763, Jean Mandé Sigogne arrived in Nova Scotia in 1799. He had been living in exile in England for the previous seven years after leaving France during the French Revolution. A Roman Catholic Priest, and later Justice of the Peace, Sigogne spent the last 45 years of his life serving the Acadian and the Mi’kmaq peoples until his death in 1844. During his life in Nova Scotia Abbé Sigogne supervised the construction of nine churches, his seventh one being Saint John the Baptist Church. The cornerstone for St. John the Baptist was laid in 1837; construction finiSHLd and it was consecrated in 1841. It is the only one of Sigogne’s churches that remains today and it is the second oldest Roman Catholic Church in Nova Scotia.

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