St Bernards High School - Bernardian Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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, To MARY Help of Christians we dedicaTe our BERNARDIAN of l959. Cur greaT paTron, ST. Bernard, had an exTraordinary devoTcn To our Blessed MoTl'er. To him we aTTribuTe The Salve Regina, The Hail, Holy Queen, ThaT beauTiTul prayer by which we Turn To her Tor help in all oLr aTfl7 er' ,iw , 5' Mary, Help oi Chfiffanii, musT have a special 'nTer- esf r our own lard, lcr The ship which had such an eTTecT on our defT'ny, bore her rame, The iSanTa Mariaf' She had sailed Tron' a very CaTholic Span which proudly boafed ol beng our Ladyls champion and whose sailors enery evening sara The Saline Regina. Liie ST. Bernard, who preceded l'im by Tour cena wo' L iifsipo 'if iraure n 'isle O e Turies, Columbus was so devoTed To Qur Lady, ThaT lee vxe errTal Tl soT adwhdTb buried in her chapel dedicaTed 'o The lmmaculaTe Co'cepTior, aT C:'cep on in Hai . lv-enTy years aTTer Columbus, The ship oi Juan Ponce oT Leos corhnued Tre Sava lvlarias Turrow To The ccasT o: The US. lT was Palm Sunday ard The land Touched aT was called, Florida, a land in Tlower. Defsyllow, The TirsT real successor oT Ponce de Leor, on one oT his expedi- Tiors, came To whaT 's row Chesapeaie Bay and gave iT The name oT The Bay oT The MoTher oi God. Here The TirsT Mass on Virginia's soil was celebraTed and in The TirsT chapel ever builT on US. TerriTory. LaTer The explorer Coronado, coming To The Rio Grande River, gave iT The TiTle OT Qur Lady's River, because iT was TirsT seen on Our Ladyls birThday, SepTember 8. Vizcaino dedicaTed ris expediirion along CaliTornia's coasT To Our Lady oT MounT Carmel. Cabrillols piloT prayed To our Lady OT Guadalupe when in danger oTT The coasT OT Oregon, and was convinced ThaT iT was God and His Blessed MoTher who miraculously saved Them. De SOTO, beiore leaving Cuba made a will ThaT he be buried wiTh his moTher and ThaT a chapel be buiiT in This church which should be dedicaTed To Our Lady oi The Concep-Tion. To These Spanish explorers all The land really be- longed To Our Lady. Even Today The names oT places in our souThwesT read lilce a liTany oT The sainTs-San Francisco, SanTa Barbara, San Diego, SanTa Maria of The Angels Tnow Los Angelesl, eTc.

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The cornersTone oT ST. Bernardis CenTral High School was laid in l926. Today in addiTion To The rnar bulding, There are eighT porTalole buildings and a large garage serving as a Home Economics laboraTory. Today, also, The annual enrollnnenT is lirniTed To abouT 860 sTudenTs. SeyenTeen parishes are represenTed aT ST. Bernardis. Qn The campus are Two converTs Tor our sisTer-Teaching TaculTy, The SisTers oT The Pre5ehTaTion oT The Blessed Virgin Mary. This religious order was Tounded 'n l776 by Nano Nagle, who Torsalcing The gay socieTy liTe oT Paris and The lorillianT courT oT Louis XV, reTurned To Ireland and oeyoTed her enT2re liTe and TorTune To The educaTion oT The poor, in heroic deTiance oT penal laws which sTricTly Torbade such educaTion and The Teaching of The CaTholic TaiTh in Ireland. This religious order spread rapidly ThroughouT lreland as more and more women joined Nano Nagle in her liTe oT selT-sacriTice in The inTeresTs oT The poor and Tor The greaTer glory oT God. The Tounda- 'Aff Li , Q. 4. .Ab 6 r-'S -1 Tions were made in England, NewToundland, fXusTralia, India, and The UniTed STaTes. The TirsT PresenTaTion SisTers came To FiTchburg in 1886, where Today They sTaTT noT only ST. Bernard's T-ligh buT also Tour grammar schools and Regina Coeli College. '-0991140

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French explorers also carried wiTh Them To The New World, devoTion To The MoTher oT God. OuTsTanding is EaTher MargueTTe who on December 8, The TeasT oT The ImmaculaTe ConcepTion, wenT Toward The GreaT WaTer. As soon as he had TloaTed Trom The Wisconsin inTo The Mississippi, he began as he said, all TogeTher a new devoTion To The Blessed Virgin lmmaculaTe which we pracficed daily, addressing To her special prayers To place under her proTecTion boTh our persons and The success oT our voyage. As EaTher MarqueTTe conTinued down The river he called iT The River ol: The lmmaculaTe ConcepTion. BuT even beTore The coming oT MarqueTTe, There were more Than a score oT mission ouTposTs in The UniTed STaTes, many oT Them named aTTer Our Lady, as +ha+ near The mouTh oT The PenobscoT River in Maine in l648. As wiTh The Spanish and French, Our Lady made her enTry inTo our land wiTh The English also When The TirsT English came To our shores under The lTalian CaboTs England proudly looked upon herselT as Our Lady s Dower BuT all This had changed Tor now Mary and her shrines were ouTlawed on English soul cf lT was in I634 ThaT The Ark and The Dove. The ships oT Lord BalTimore, arrived in The Spanish-called Bay oT The MoTher oT God, now Chesapeake. On The EeasT oT The AnnunciaTion, March 25, Two JesuiT priesTs celebraTed The colony's TirsT Mass. The name Maryland recalled Our Lady To The CaTholic mind, buT oTTicially iT was named in honor oT Queen l'lenrieTTa Maria. Maryland's TirsT liTTle ciTy was called ST. Mary's. In I790, our TirsT bishop, John Carroll, was consecraTed in England in a chapel dedicaTed To Our Lady, and on The EeasT oT her AssumpTion. l-le soon adopTed a seal Tor his diocese on which was picTured Our Blessed MoTher surrounded by sTars. Realizing how much he needed The help oT Mary, To waTch over his vasT diocese oT Three million square miles, one oT The TirsT Things ThaT The new Bishop did when he reTurned To The UniTed STaTes was To have The LiTany oT Our Lady reciTed beTore The cele- braTion oT High Mass ThroughouT his diocese j fl X43 X' HKU 911 Ni KCI will T eu W 5 Q xi? 2 X. Q N M xl fgagliisif I N Ti: if say 53- ,f N 4 '.y,,o -1 W- ,J -- I 01 'H x l ff 1 if Nl Q ll L T f NT 5 ,T f ix Mm ' . , L TN a A ,N 5 J. g y'tQ,,5: ,.y, is r i T X , . if 'X e J, X M lli A , vb T' -..T a csr A T 4 oct . .ur , v .Il ,.L,k2'l i5i3'xQi1xJ iltbgi is ,ii 5 ll A E N T- f ' . s l 85 - gf' P 2 'X La