Shreveport Martyr Father Louis Gergaud

Very Reverend Peter B. Magnum, JCL, is the rector of the Cathedral of St. John Berchmans, judicial vicar and director of vocations for the Diocese of Shreveport. He has twice visited the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome to learn and assist in the advancement of its cause. William Ryan Smith serves as the director of hospital operations at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport. He is the author of Sang Pour Sang, a historical fiction novel published by University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, and this is his third nonfiction title with The History Press. Cheryl H. White, PhD, is a professor of history at Louisiana State University at Shreveport, where she has taught Medieval European and Christian Church history for twenty-five years. This is her seventh book title to be published with The History Press.