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Material Information
- Title:
- Sibilly, Church Lands Donor (1976)
- Creator:
- Claude Maloon
- Publication Date:
- 1976
Notes
- Abstract:
- Jean Joseph Sibilly (center), patriarch of the French community of Estate Elizabeth, St. Thomas, kneels during the 50th anniversary celebration of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, April 20, 1976. Mr. Sibilly, a 1912 immigrant from St. Barthelemy, donated the land for the church in 1924. The church was completed in 1926. Mr. Sibilly, an agriculturalist, engineer, construction foreman and realtor, purchased Estate Elizabeth shortly after his arrival on St. Thomas, and divided it between twelve families for land farming.
- General Note:
- Item was digitized and contributed to the collaborative Digital Library of the Caribbean by the University of the Virgin Islands.
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