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and lodged in the rectory. In all probability this was the first boarding school for boys in the Diocese of Natchez. The epidemic of yellow fever in 1853 forced him to dismiss the boarders and close the school.
Father Buteux, however, was a man of courage and did not lose heart. He reopened the school in June, 1854, and placed the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in charge. In August of the same year he sailed for France and pointed out to Brother Polycarp, superior of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, the advantages of a boarding school for boys in Bay St. Louis. St. Stanislaus college, named after the patron saint of Father Buteux, was the result of this meeting.