Shreveport Martyrs

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The Shreveport Martyrs are five Roman Catholic priests who died while caring for strangers afflicted in the 1873 Yellow Fever Epidemic of Shreveport, Louisiana. All five were missionary priests from Brittany, France who came to serve the Diocese of Natchitoches under Augustus Marie Martin They are (listed in the order of their deaths): Isidore Quémerais of Pleine-Fougères, Jean Pierre of Lanloup, Jean-Marie Biler of Plourivo, Louis Gergaud of Heric, and Francois Le Vézouët of Brélidy.