Louis William Valentine DuBourg was a French Catholic prelate and Sulpician missionary to the United States. He built up the church in the vast new Louisiana Territory as the Bishop of Louisiana and t
Early depiction of the Georgetown College campus
"Mr. DuBourg's chapel" at St. Mary's College
DuBourg selected the site of Baltimore's first cathedral.
Rose Philippine Duchesne, RSCJ, was a French religious sister and educator whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1988. A native of France, she immigrated as a missionary to America, and is recognized fo