Today we had our sales blitz in Thibodaux, Louisiana where we went out to the town and canvassed the area in teams to advertise our spring special. Thibodaux is almost at the end of the earth. If this map went further south, we would be at the Gulf of Mexico.



While my partner and I were out, we stopped at a couple of famous places in town.

The first was BUBBA's. There are two locations for Bubba's. We ate at one for lunch later. The one we stopped at in the morning had this great alligator in the entry. Don't you love being greeted like this?

This is just an absolutely beautiful building. I only took a picture of the doors. But look at them - rich with history. Fremins is a restaurant that is housed in an old pharmacy in 1910.


We also went to THE church in Thibodaux. St Joseph Catholic Church.
The exterior of the church was completed in early 1923 and the first mass was celebrated on January 25, 1923. Ornamental plaster and marble work on the interior was completed in 1931, when the church was re-dedicated.
This is St Valerie. I'll be honest this part of the church kind of weirded me out. She is over in the corner up at the front and this is the story of the fake body in the casket on display in the church.
Valerie is a derivative of Valeria. St. Valeria was an early martyr probably at or near Milan. According to legend, Vitalis was a soldier who, when the physician St. Ursicinus of Ravenna wavered when faced with death for Christ, encouraged him to stand firm. The governor accordingly ordered Vitalis to be racked and then buried alive, which was done. His wife, St. Valeria, was set upon by pagans near Milan and died from their brutal treatment. These things are said to have happened during the persecution under Nero, but the second century, under Marcus Aurelius, is a more likely date for their martyrdom. Their feast day is April 28th.