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Site of Victoria's First Church

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Market Square, Main Street, Victoria, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 28° 47' 46.90822999992", -97° 0' 24.81216999984"
 
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     Erected by Martin De Leon, founder of Victoria, soon after his arrival in October, 1824. Priests serving there were Rev. Fathers Jose Miguel Muro, Jose Antonio Valdez, Antonio Diaz De Leon, O.M.F. The church was restored in 1840 by Most Rev. John Mary Odin, first Catholic Bishop of Texas. In 1850 Father Agustine Gardet had it removed to the northwest corner of the lot where Nazareth Convent now stands. (1936)

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