GOLDEN JUBILEE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 236, 5 October 1935, Page 13

GOLDEN JUBILEE.

MARIST BROTHERS. WORK OF ORDER SINCE 1885. PROGRAMME OF FUNCTIONS. During the next nine days the golden jubilee of the arrival of the Marist Brothers in Auckland will be celebrated. The first function will begin to-morrow, and the final on the evening of Monday, October 14. The teaching work of the Order, begun in 1817 by Father Mareellin thampagnat, was extended to New Zealand in 1870, when the Marist Brothers arrived in Wellington. In 1885 four Brothers came to Auckland at the invitation of Bishop Luck, and established their first school at the junction of Pitt and Wellington Streets. 'The school was primarily a day school, though for some years there were also boarders there. In 1903. as the result of greater demand for both primary and secondary work, Sacred Heart College was founded. In 1912 the primary department was removed to Vermont Street, but as well as this, the Brothers have primary establishments at .Hamilton and Gisborne.

A training school for Brothers was opened at Tuakau, when New Zealand was made a separate province of the Order. It now contains between 30 and 40 juniors. A scholastieate has been provided at Sacred Heart for completing the training of future Brothers. The first function to-morrow will be a motor drive to the Novitiate at .1 uakau, leaving St. Benedict’s Hall. Newton, at 1.30 p.m. On the following Saturday a garden party will be held in the grounds of Sacred Heart College. Old boys of the college living in many parts of the Dominion have expressed their intention of being present at the functions next week-end. A man who has risen to fame in the Church, Bishop Brodie, the most distinguished of former students, who was educated at the Marist Brothers’ school at Pitt Street, will preside and preach at the Solemn Pontifical Mass of Thanksgiving to be held in St. Patlicks Cathedral on Sunday morning, October 13. A sacred concert will be held in the evening in the Civic Theatre, while the next morning Requiem Mass will be offered for the repose of dead Brothers and old boys. The final function of the celebrations will be a smoke conceit in St. Benedict’s Hall in the evening.