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St. Mary's Academy, founded by Fr. Raymond for boys in 1855, combined with the Academy of the Immaculate Conception for girls, opened by the Marianite Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1856. St. Joseph's School, founded in 1874 by the Sisters of the Holy Family and later renamed Holy Ghost, joined them in 1971 when the schools merged to form Opelousas Catholic, the oldest teaching institution in Opelousas.
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Opelousas, Louisiana · United States