J.A.M. Pelamourges

Jean-Antoine-Marie Pelamourgues
Rev. J.A.M. Pelamourgues
Born	1807 Rodez, Aveyron, France
Died	1875 Rodez, Aveyron, France
Nationality	French
Known for	First pastor of St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Davenport, Iowa Missionary to the Sauk and Fox tribes

Jean-Antoine-Marie Pelamourgues (1807–1875) was a French missionary who was one of the first Roman Catholic priests to serve in the Diocese of Dubuque in the state of Iowa. He served as the first pastor of St. Anthony's Church in Davenport, Iowa from 1839 to 1868.

Pelamourgues was born in the city of Rodez, in the Department of Aveyron, France. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Rodez.

After Bishop Mathias Loras was consecrated as the first bishop of Dubuque in Mobile, Alabama in 1837 he set sail for Europe to recruit priests for his new diocese. While in France he recruited two priests, Joseph Crétin and Pelamourgues, as well as four seminarians: Augustin Ravoux, Lucien Galtier, James Causse, and Remigius Petiot. They made a difficult voyage of 54 days across the Atlantic Ocean in the Autumn of 1838. They attributed their safe passage to the intercession of St. Cessianus, whose relics had been given to Loras by Pope Gregory XVI while he was in Rome. The priests had celebrated Mass at an altar constructed over the relics. The saint's relics are now under the altar in St. Raphael's Cathedral in Dubuque.

After they landed in New York, Pelamourgues and the seminarians went to St. Mary's Seminary at Baltimore to learn English, while Loras and Crétin proceeded to St. Louis to wait out the winter. In the spring the Rev. Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, OP, the only priest serving the Dubuque Diocese, traveled to St. Louis and escorted Loras and the others to Dubuque.