By William Mahoney, Ph.D., Church Militant - The faithful gathered early in the morning at St. Leo the Great in Leonville for Mass in French on Sunday with their bishop, Lafayette's John Douglas Deshotel. Mass marked the beginning of the seventh annual Fête-Dieu du Teche, a 40-mile Eucharistic boat procession down the Bayou Teche — a 125-mile river flowing down south-central Louisiana... This year's Fête-Dieu occurred during the year of Saint Joseph and the year of the family, and so the Holy Family was honored with the inclusion of a statue of St. Joseph and a statue of the Virgin Mary, each hosted on its own boat.