The name of our Council is Bishop Claude Dubuis Council 7445
The Early Days of Sacred Heart Parish
On March 2, 1866, Mr. John O'Brien of the County
of Brazoria sold to the Most Reverend Claude Marie Dubuis, the second Bishop of
Galveston, three and one half lots of Block 75 in the town of Richmond.
This is the site on which Sacred Heart stands today. Bishop Claude Dubuis
visited the Catholic community in Richmond in June 1868. There was a small
chapel here with living accomodations above it. Father John Barlemann
used to come to offer Holy Mass. He died in 1873. Madam St. Ambrose,
an Ursuline nun, opened a school here, and in 1868 she had 18 or 20 students,
of which only 5 or 6 were Catholic children. There is no information as
to what happened to that chapel, but in 1901 a collection was taken up
by Catholics interested in building a church. History is sparse here and
for the next thirty years.
Bishop Claude Dubuis bought the original land on which our parish now
thrives. The Council voted to name our Council in honor of the first patron of our parish.
