This African American church was established by missionaries from the Society of the Divine Word. Round-arched openings enliven the simple front-gabled stuccoed building, and a central three-tiered forty-foot tower dominates the facade. The barrel-vaulted chancel features a stunning 1991 mural showing a black Christ figure floating among the twisted limbs of an ancient live oak tree, by artists Auseklis Ozols of New Orleans and Kat Fitzpatrick of Bay St. Louis.
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "ST. ROSE DE LIMA CATHOLIC CHURCH", [Bay St. Louis, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-GC8.
Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 338-338.
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