St Mary High School - Marian Yearbook (Marion, OH)

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ASSISTANT PRIESTS Reverend Hugh Murphy . Father Murphy's kindly smile and friend- liness have endeared him to all the students at St. Mary's. He acts as moderator for the Junior Holy Name Society and the Catholic Youth Organization in the parish. Being the athletic director, Father has a special interest in school sports. Curricular activities include religion classes for Sophomore and Freshman students as well as instruction in the grade school. Reverend Urban Wiggins . The students of St. Mary's have a loyal friend and adviser in the person of Father Wiggins. His sermons and classroom in- structions are equally inspirational. Besides teaching Senior and Junior religion classes, Father is frequently in the confessional for the students' convenience. All school activities and particularly basketball and football games are Father's enthusiastic interests.

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ln the days when wagon trains were filing laboriously across American plains and men turned eager faces toward mountains where buried gold might be hiding, Marion, Ohio, DW was a quiet little town iust pulling out of its adolescent days and growing from 12,000 per- sons into cityhood. Tradition has it that the Faith was brought to Marion in the heart and soul of Timothy Fahey who, one can imagine, was a restless Irishman until he succeeded with I the help of others in making it possible to bow REVEREND JOHN MACKEY down his head before even a makeshift altar where bread and wine had become Body and Blood of Christ by the power of a priest of God. The celebration of the first Mass in Marion is attributed to Father Burgess in the year 1849. Once begun, the Holy Sacrifice continued to be offered by the priests from adjoining towns, but only at irregular intervals and under great hardships. Father Grogan's name has come down from those days. Though the faithful had no building in which to house their God, nevertheless, He received a warm welcome in the lowly homes of these REVEREND PETER MCMAHON first Marion Catholic families. i . ,bu fl g fri. W V ' 5' Within four years, on September 22, 1853, ' ' ' s-V', A jg to be exact, Timothy Fahey donated a plot of W K Qroundi Purchased from Eber Baker, to be used L ' Y- for a permanent church. In the meantime early ,lg ' A ' 5 ,' 5 1 A ' Catholic settlers athered re ularl in the Old W , g , 9 9 Y . 1.212 - y Huber Shop on Mill Street near Main in an attempt to give God decent worship. Into this factory room came Anthony Flaherty, John Lawrence, Nicholas Lawrence, Conrad Conners, Jeremiah Darmody, John Kelleher, Edmond 4 i