St. Valerie Shrine 
Canal Boulevard at East Seventh Street
Thibodaux, LA 70301
985-446-1387

The St. Valerie Shrine is an ornate glass and wood casket containing a wax statue embedded with the actual severed arm of St. Valerie. Valerie was born in Rome and became a virgin Christian martyr when she was tortured and beheaded in the Roman Coliseum in the late second century.