Los Angeles Catholic Girls High School - Crozier Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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CL17Cl!C Cl C, CA? IS Dashung Spanlshcongu1sTadores came here seelcnng wealTh buT zealous brown robed Trnars came seelclng souls and heroucally They Trad The paTh +ha+ was TO wnden To The Kung s l-lughway upon whnch Tor One l-lundred Years has marched The Cavalcade oT ChrusT The Shepherds oT l-hs Floclc WuTh The consecraTron oT Francisco Garcia Diego y Moreno O F M as The TursT bishop oT Calnfornaa on December 4 I84O The glorious era oT The rnlssuons ended and The hasTory oT The drocese oT Los Angeles began lTs progress during The TursT years was reTarded by many duTTlculTres yeT unselTlshly :Ts TnrsT zealous leader labored Tor has Tloclc buT The hardshups oT Those crnhcal Times so exhausTed Bnshop Gvarcaa Duego ThaT he died aTTer buT sux shorT years l:TTle realuzung ThaT has courageous perseverance had sown The seed whrch was an The TuTure To reap an abundanT harvesT oT souls ln l85O The MosT Reverend Joseph S Alemany O P was appomTed bushop oT MonTerey and Three years laTer was TransTerred To The new Archduocese oT San Francusco IT was The Thlrd bashop oT Los Angeles The Reverend Thaddeus AmaT C M who on Aprnl 30 I876 saw The consecraTuon oT The caThe dral whnch was deducaTed To ST Vnbuana I-hs successor The RughT mlssronary Tuelds oT CallTornsa where he was ordanned on March I9 l856 l-le was a quleT and devouT man buT a Tar seelng admin lsTraTor and when he resvgned nn I896 aTTer TorTy years oT mas slonary labor IH CalsTornua The CaTholuc populaTuon oT The diocese oT Los Angeles numbered abouT 30 OOO souls Bnshop MonTgom ery already coadluTor To Bnshop Mora sunce I894 became The nexT Ordinary oT The duocese l-le was a sTrong advocaTe oT CaTholuc educaTuon and oT The rrghTs oT The lndlan Durvng The seven years oT has admunusTraTnon he dld much To malce The Church and 1TsTeachungs undersTood and respecTed and To show ThaT good CaThol:cs musT be good c1Trzens The arrnval oT The Rngh+ Rev erend Thomas J ConaTy The second RecTor oT The CaThollc Un: verslTy oT America as Bnshop oT Los Angeles In l903 saw a cnTy which had rapidly developed boTh splrlTually and maTernally Thus growTh conTnnued unTul now aT The close oT a cenTury under The guidance oT :Ts presenT shepherd The MosT Reverend John J CanTwell D D who was appounTed Bnshop an l9I8 and elevaTed To The drgnrTy oT Archbishop rn IQ37 The Archdiocese numbers over 3I7 OOO CaTholucs ln Thus year oT Our Lord l94O The CenTenary oT The Arch diocese oT Los Angeles we can loolc back over one hundred glora ous years and Thanlc God Tor The ouTsTandung leaders l-le has senT To brnng T-lns Church Trom a humble begnnnung Through greaT hardshnps To a posuTuon worThy oT l-las greaTer honor and glory O T T' VJ? Reverend Francis Mora, had come as-a young sTudenT To The

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G Four years is a small parf ol a life-lime, ye? in fhe four imporfanl years of high school we have acquired much of +he lraining, mos? of 'rhe lcnowledge, and many of fhe memories which are +o lasf us lor +he resr of our lives. lf our characlers have been broughf a liflle closer ro perleclion, our minds broadened by enliqhfenmenf, and our memories made sweerer by lhese happy years, il is because of The worlc and sacrifice of our Archbishop, our Principal, and our beloved Faculry who, wirh unriring ehforfs, have guided and counseled us in rhese preparalory years. May we ever prove a credif lo fhese friends and Teachers whom we now fhanlc from The deplhs of our hearls wirh grafifude 'rhar will increase wi+h lhe wisdom of coming years. A fi il MS Gll lo