St Francis College - Franciscan Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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OF BROOKLYN 1958

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dedication m e dedicate the Saint Francis College Annual to the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn on the occasion of their Centennial Anniversary. Since 1858 the Franciscan Brothers have labored among the people of Brooklyn, helping, guiding, informing. They have witnessed vast changes during this period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and social progress, adjusting to the times but still adhering to a thirteenth century concept which has remained a constant living thing —F ranciscanism. The next century is eagerly awaited. The vast horizons of technology and the marvels of the atomic age will offer no threat to a way of life that has survived the centuries. The horse and buggy era, the age of steel, of electronics, of space, make little difference to those motivated by the guiding principle of St. Francis—“My God and My All”.

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31 Chronicle of the Franciscan ©, ne hundred years of labor dedicated to the education of American youth. This, in brief, is the story of the Franciscan Brothers. It is the story of a comparatively small band of men who have given unceasingly of their talents to strengthen youth with Supernatural Doctrine and to arm them with the knowledge of the arts and processes of the modern world. All this has been done in keeping with Christs command, “I have appointed you to go and bear fruit and that fruit should remain . . (JOHN XV, 16) BISHOP LOUGHLIN Tt, ►jght Reverend John Loughlin, d.d., upon being consecrated the first Bishop of Brooklyn, assumed the task of establishing a parish school system. He requested aid from the Irish Congregation of Franciscan Brothers. Two Franciscans, Brother John McMahon and Brother Vincent Hayes, arrived from Galway on May 31, 1858, to begin the new American foundation. MOUNT BELLEW in Ireland from which the first Franciscan Brothers came to Brooklyn. 4