(Vue de la Rivière du Fort Saint-Pierre de la Martinique Bassot, 1765, Bureau du patrimoine, Conseil régional de la Martinique) This is a very cool painting of the island of Martinique in 1765, which the Védrines family has connections to. On a document from Barsac, France during the French Revolution,

This past Tuesday – July 4 – was the anniversary of Fr. Pensier’s tragic death. May he rest in peace!   Fr. PL (Pierre) Pensier was born in France around 1846. Like many of the clergy at the time, he responded to the call to be a Missionary Priest in