After 13 years, Parishioners were present for May Day mass at St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church Wednesday evening to honor Our Lady of Fatima and St. Joseph.
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A St. Landry Parish family is hopeful that a U.S. Army forensics team has discovered the remains of Sgt. Francis Joseph Vidrine, a Grand Prairie native presumably killed and missing for nearly 77 years following an infantry combat mission in France a month after the D-Day invasion.
Vidrine, according to military records, was killed July 7, 1944, while with the 30th Army infantry division at Mortain, France. Then 24, he was declared missing in action and later declared dead. However, the body of Vidrine, who has received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, was never recovered.
But military officials told family members recently that a massive gravesite discovered in France probably contains the body of the missing soldier, according to Francis Vidrine s cousin, Kenneth Vidrine.