La Basilique Lewiston


Rev. Alexandre Louis Mothon, Lewiston, ca. 1900

Rev. Alexandre Louis Mothon, Lewiston, ca. 1900
Item 18368   info
Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries

In 1881, the Bishop of Maine ceded the sprawling ecclesiastic territory to the Dominican Order from France, which had recently established a North American branch in St. Hyacinthe, Québec.

As a result, Lewiston-Auburn's ever increasing French-Canadian population received a new visionary, if controversial, religious leader from France: Alexandre Louis Mothon.


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