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| | Shreveport: The Cathedral of St. John Berchmans |
 | | Besides being located in Louisiana, the cathedral has another Louisiana connection - being named for an Austrian Jesuit whose appearance in 1836 to a dying nun at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, was accepted as the required third miracle for his canonization. |
 | | When attending mass, non-Catholics are not required to do all the "standing up and sitting down." When Catholics go up for communion, non-Catholics are free to go forward also, not for communion, but to ask the priest for a prayer of blessing. |
 | | His appearance in 1836 to a Sacred Heart nun in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, was accepted as the required third miracle for his canonization. |
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