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A brick church building with a tall spire, seen against a blue sky

• ... that Stanley Ott, Bishop of Baton Rouge, celebrated the funeral Mass for a convicted murderer and allowed his burial near the graves of bishops?
• ... that the original Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral building was saved from burning during the American Civil War when the parish priest imitated General Banks's voice and ordered Union troops to spare the church?
• ... that the interior of St. Sebastian's Catholic Church (pictured) in Sebastian, Ohio is distinguished by its Gothic Revival reredos?