Pass Christian

Pass Christian, city, Harrison county, southern Mississippi, U.S., just west-southwest of Gulfport, on Mississippi Sound (an embayment of the Gulf of Mexico). It is named for the nearby deepwater channel known as Christian’s Pass, which runs through the sound along the Gulf Coast, supposedly navigated in 1699 by Christian L’Adnier, a member of the crew of the French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville. Originally settled by the French and Spanish, it became a trading centre...