This Day in Province History: September 14, 1957
The Province Definitory voted permission for the Vice Province of California to build a novitiate, pending permission from Rome to do so.
This Day in Province History: September 13, 1899
Augustinian Academy opened its doors to 13 boys, the first enrollments of the new school established at Austin Place, Staten Island, in the building that had formerly belong to the Visitation Nuns.
This Day in Province History: September 12, 1949
Fr. Thomas McLeod blessed the finished mission chapel of Our Mother of Consolation Church, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, known as St. Mary’s in Flourtown, which when established as an independent parish in 1953, would be renamed St. Genevieve.
This Day in Province History: September 11, 1912
Fr. Charles M. Driscoll, former prior provincial, attended the opening of the Eucharistic Congress this day in Vienna, Austria, as the personal representative of Thomas M. A. Burke, bishop of Albany, New York.
This Day in Province History: September 10, 1899
Apostolic Delegate Sebastiano Martinelli, O.S.A. presided at the blessing and opening of the chapel of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Staten Island, a new foundation for the province in the Archdiocese of New York.
This Day in Province History: September 9, 1963
Austin Preparatory School in Reading, Massachusetts, opened its doors on this day with an enrollment of 191 pupils, freshmen and sophomores, and with a staff of 8 friars and 2 lay teachers
This Day in Province History: September 8, 1898
Prior General Tomas Rodriguez approved Fr. John Fedigan’s request to send American friars to Cuba to re-establish a presence in Havana, and to see to recovering former foundations of the Order in that country following the end of the Spanish-Cuban-American War.
This Day in Province History: September 7, 1967
The Brothers’ House of Formation, “Cascia Hall”, at Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, was opened on this day by Prior Provincial James Sherman. The Brothers pursued courses at the college, and assisted at the monastery and campus church as sacristans and servers.
This Day in Province History: September 6, 1896
On this Sunday, in 1896, there began a Solemn Triduum to celebrate the Centennial Anniversary of the Province’s first foundation, St. Augustine Church, in Philadelphia. The days of celebration would include the consecration of a new altar by the Bishop of Ogdensburg, New York, and a Solemn Mass offered by Archbishop Patrick Ryan of Philadelphia.
This Day in Province History: September 5, 1869
Fr. Pacifico Neno, future American Provincial and Prior General, who had come to the United States in 1865 to assist with the theological faculty of Villanova College, was appointed Master of Novices on this day.