St. Louis King of France Cathedral, Jérémie King of France (also known as Louis IX of France and Ludovico). On April 20, 1972, the Diocese of Jérémie was created with the division of the diocese of Les Cayes. That is when Jérémie church became a cathedral. The Cathedral sustained extensive damage on October 5, 2016 due to Hurricane Matthew. St. Louis King of France Cathedral, Jérémie The St. Louis King of France Cathedral () is the name given to a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the town of Jérémie in the Caribbean and island country of Haiti. In Jérémie an ancient
Name of France and "French" have had strong bearings in the abolition of slavery and serfdom in France. Indeed, in 1315, king Louis X issued an edict abolishing slavery and proclaiming that "France signifies freedom", that any slave setting foot on (metropolitan) French ground should be freed. This decree served as the basis for a group of crusading lawyers at the parlement of Paris, many of whom were members of the Society of the Friends of the Blacks, winning unprecedented emancipation rights in a series of cases before the French revolution, which (temporarily) led to the complete abolition of slavery on French territories