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On 24 May, 1956 – Feast of Our Lady of
the Wayside , in a particularly ‘propitious’ year –
marking the four hundredth anniversary of the foundation
of the Society – the foundation stone of the new building
was laid.
With the whole school in attendance, the stone was
lowered into position.
The blessing was performed by Fr Provicial, Fr Michael
O’Grady SJ, and the ceremony was attended by the Rector
of Milltown, Fr John MacMahon SJ, and by the rectors of
Rathfarnham Castle, Belvedere College and Leeson
Street, as well as Very Rev. John Hooke, PP, Beechwood
Church.
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On 24 May, 1956 – Feast of Our Lady of
the Wayside , in a particularly ‘propitious’ year –
marking the four hundredth anniversary of the foundation
of the Society – the foundation stone of the new building
was laid.
With the whole school in attendance, the stone was
lowered into position.
The blessing was performed by Fr Provicial, Fr Michael
O’Grady SJ, and the ceremony was attended by the Rector
of Milltown, Fr John MacMahon SJ, and by the rectors of
Rathfarnham Castle, Belvedere College and Leeson
Street, as well as Very Rev. John Hooke, PP, Beechwood
Church.
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