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By the 1970's, both missions at Rocky Hill and the Chapel
of the Pines in Catahoula were closed. The National
Aeronautics and Space Association (N.A.S.A.) then acquired it
126,00Q,^as a buffer zone to prevent buildings and windows from suffering acoustical damage when rocket engines are fired. This acreage encompasses Hancock and Pearl River counties and part of St. Tammany Parish in Louisiana.
The mission of White Cypress eventually became a parish in the spring of 1982, with its own pastor. It w as named St. Matthew the Apostle. The remaining mission, St Joseph at Fenton, on the Kiln-Delisle road, was closed in 1985.
Father Antone Lynch, a Trinitarian, resided at Annunciation until 1988, when the Trinitarians returned the parish to the Diocese of Biloxi. In June of the same year, Father Henry Mclnerney from County Clare, Ireland, was appointed as the new and present pastor.
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