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Luis Ignacio Marïa Peñalver y Cárdenas (1749-1810), a native of Havana, served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas from 1795-1801. In this 1800 letter to the Cabildo he sought to provide for a schedule of Holy Week services that would be agreeable to the municipal authorities. Apparently, this caused a good deal of discussion among the Cabildo members. Almost one year later, Acting Governor Nicolas Marïa Vidal answered the Bishop on behalf of the Cabildo, requesting that the masses on Holy Thursday and Good Friday be scheduled a half-hour later in the year 1801.      [Petitions, letters, and decrees of the Cabildo, September 26, 1799, #349]

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