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The location of the bay was so inviting, and its natural resources so abundant that in December of 1699 d”lberville sent a sergeant and 15 soldiers, together with a few families, to form a colony at Bay St. Louis.
If the age of chivalry had passed, the spirit of the Crusaders yet survived; and wherever the French explorers unfurled the flag of France they planted at the same time the Cross of Christ. Side by side with the noblest knights stood the consecrated priest, patient in suffering, fearless in danger, sublime in enthusiasm. The expedition of d’lberville was not exception to this rule. Father Athanasius Douay and Father Bordenave accompanied him on this first expedition to the coast, and it is not unlikely that they occasionally visited the little colony at the Bay.