Sancti et Socii

Sancti et Socii Stories behind the titles of buildings and spaces at Saint Ignatius’ College.

SAINTS AND BLESSEDS

Saint Ignatius Loyola SJ (1491-1556) Our school is named after Saint Ignatius of Loyola SJ.

Ignatius of Loyola was born in the Basque region of Spain in about 1491. His mother died when he was an infant, and a wet nurse raised him. As a teenage boy, he served in various grand houses of Spain, learning the ways of courtly life and later the skills of a knight. Ignatius was a prideful young man, and he found trouble at times with the local authorities. In 1521 at Pamplona, he convinced his fellow soldiers to try to defend that city from the attacking French, who had far superior numbers. The city was lost, and Ignatius’ leg was shattered when hit by a cannon ball.

Convalescing at his family’s castle, Ignatius read books on the life of Jesus and the saints. He also imagined continuing to be a knight and winning the affection of a noble Lady. Eventually he realised that the thought of following Jesus and the saints was more deeply satisfying than seeking fame and affection. He decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Before going, he went to Montserrat where he dedicated himself to a life following Jesus and then to Manresa where he spent a year coming to terms with his new way of life.

After having travelled to the Holy Lands, he returned to Spain to study at Barcelona, Alcala, and Salamanca. He lived simply, spent time with the sick, and engaged with others in spiritual conversation. For these conversations, he was imprisoned and brought before the Inquisition several times. Inigo went to the University of Paris in 1528 for studies, and shared rooms there with Peter Faber and Francis Xavier. Over time, Ignatius led these two through his Spiritual Exercises, and they became his first Companions.

These three, with seven others, took vows together in 1534, forming a common bond. After having completed studies and trying to travel to Jerusalem as a group, they spent time working in cities in Italy. The Companions went to Rome and sought to place themselves at the disposal of the Pope, to go wherever the Church and world most needed them. In 1540, the group formed a religious order and elected Ignatius as the first Superior General, the leader of the Order.

Ignatius spent the next 16 years in Rome, directing the formation of the new order, writing the Order’s Constitution, and editing his Spiritual Exercises. The Order moved wherever in the world the need was greatest, seeking and finding God in all things. Ignatius died in 1556, and is remembered here as the founder of the Jesuits and the spirituality that bears his name.

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Saint Francis Xavier SJ (1506-1552) Saint Francis Xavier SJ is a house patron.

His name has been given to the artrooms and Year 11 home rooms at the Senior School.

Francis Xavier was born on 7 April 1506 into a noble Basque family. He went to study at the University of Paris where he spent much of his time with a wild group of friends. He shared his rooms, though, with two quieter men - Peter Faber and Ignatius of Loyola. This coincidence of roommates profoundly changed the trajectory of his life.

Initially Ignatius did not impress Xavier, but over time, through measured conversation, Ignatius brought him to a spiritual awakening. With Ignatius, Faber, and seven others, Xavier made vows in Paris in 1534. These vows bound them as a group to put themselves at the disposal of the Pope to serve where the need was most great.

During the following years they tried to travel to Jerusalem, and spent time ministering to people in the cities of Italy, usually living with the poor and sick in hospitals. By 1540, Xavier was settled in Rome as a secretary to Ignatius, and then an unexpected and urgent need arose for a Jesuit to travel to Goa, India. Ignatius asked Xavier, and he replied to the effect of, “I’m ready.”

Ignatius and Xavier would never see each other again, and letters sent between them show that these unlikely friends felt the separation greatly.

In India, Xavier engaged energetically in his mission, seeking to restore faith among the Portuguese, bringing faith to the Indian people, and acting always with a special concern for the poor. Xavier had great success, ringing bells on the streets and engaging crowds of people. He travelled further east, going through Malaya to what is now Indonesia. Xavier baptised thousands of people on these journeys.

In 1549, he sailed for Japan. The fractured nature of Japan, with regional leaders in control, stifled his efforts. Xavier adopted a means of evangelisation that was to become a model for Jesuits and other missionaries, often referred to as ‘acculturation’. He began to dress and act in ways to which the people could relate.

Hearing of China, a kingdom that the Japanese revered, Xavier determined to go there. In August 1552, he sailed for China. He landed on the island of Sancian, waiting to be smuggled to the mainland. After several months he contracted fever, and died on 3 December 1552.

Francis Xavier is remembered here as one who slowly allowed himself to be inspired by the Spirit and was willing to follow the call to wherever the need was greatest, seeking to be an instrument of God wherever he went.

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Saint Edmund Campion SJ (1540-1581) Saint Edmund Campion SJ is a House Patron.

His name has been given to the library and Year 12 wing at the Senior School.

Edmund Campion was born in London, England, on 25 June 1540. This was a time of great upheaval for Christianity in England and across Europe. Campion was recognised as having a brilliant mind early in his life, delivering a speech to Queen Mary at just 13, and attending Oxford University at 15. He completed a Batchelor of Arts in 1561 and a Master of Arts in 1564, and then began to teach at the university.

Campion assented to the Church of England, which held that the supreme religious ruler was the Queen, and became a deacon in it. However, as he studied further, he decided he could not in conscience remain outside the Catholic Church. He left the beginning of a brilliant academic career and moved to Dublin, as it was unsafe to be a Catholic in England.

In 1571, he set out for France and, after having studied there, travelled on to Rome, intent on becoming a Jesuit.

In 1573, he entered the Jesuits and trained in Prague, where he worked until 1580. He then returned to England, as the Jesuits had established a mission there. Special care had to be taken to get back into the country, given the violent hostility to Catholicism.

Campion penned a manifesto known as Campion’s Brag, outlining the religious convictions that led to his mission.

Campion moved between homes, staying with Catholic families for one or two nights in each place before moving on. He constantly had to change disguises. In this way, he heard confessions, and offered Mass and other spiritual consolations.

Despite considerable attempts to hide his presence, he was caught and taken to the Tower of London. Queen Elizabeth arranged to meet with him, seeking that he renounce his Catholic faith and take up a position in the Church of England. He refused and was returned to the Tower, where he was tortured. Political charges were brought against him, which he denied, but he and his companions were found guilty on the first day of trial.

He was sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.

Eleven days later, on 1 December 1581, he was dragged through the streets and then had the sentence passed on him.

He is remembered here for his constancy in faith, even as it cost him his career, his home, and ultimately his life.

Campion used his considerable gifts and talents not to enrich himself, but in the service of God and others.

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Saint Stanislaus Kostka SJ (1550-1568) Saint Stanislaus Kostka SJ is a house patron. His name has been given to the art centre at the Senior School.

Stanislaus Kostka was born in 1550 to a noble family in Mazovia, Poland. At 14, he enrolled in a Jesuit college in Vienna, one especially favoured by the nobility, and he travelled there with his older brother, Paul, and a tutor.

Initially the brothers boarded at the residence adjoining the College, but after it was no longer available, they moved to new rooms, chosen by Paul who had a taste for the finer things in life.

In contrast to his older brother, Stanislaus was serious and quiet, and dedicated to his studies. He dressed plainly for a young man of his background, and sought to live simply, as well as praying regularly and for long periods. His prayer annoyed his older brother, and Paul took this, along with his meekness and humility, as a reproach to his own style of life. Paul took to mistreating Stanislaus verbally and at times beating him physically.

Stanislaus suffered this abuse for 18 months, confirming him in his humility rather than dissuading him from it. In December 1565, he fell ill, and it was thought he would die. Unable to find someone to bring the Blessed Sacrament, he prayed to be able to receive it, and his prayer was answered by a vision of a saint and angels bringing it. He then had a vision of Our Lady with the Christ Child, and he received an indication that he should enter the Jesuits.

The young man tried to enter the Jesuits but would not be accepted in Vienna without his father’s permission. He decided to try entering in Augsburg, where Peter Canisius was the Provincial. In August 1567, he set out in the simple garb of a pilgrim for the 600-kilometre journey. He had to travel even further to find Canisius, who soon recognised Stanislaus Kostka’s sincerity and agreed to admit him to the Jesuits.

Canisius thought it best that Kostka go to Rome, and in September, with two others, he set out to cross the Alps for Rome, where they arrived on 25 October. A letter from Canisius to the head of the Jesuits said, “We expect great things from him.”

Kostka was only to last 10 months as a Jesuit Novice. In this time, he grew in relationship with God through prayer.

In August 1568, he became sick with a fever and died, aged just 18, on 15 August.

He is acknowledged here because of his tenacious faith, even as a young man, to willingly travel great distances to follow God’s call.

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Saint John Francis Regis SJ (1597-1640) Saint John Francis Regis SJ is a house patron.

His name has been given to the science block at the Senior School.

John Regis was born in Fontcourt, France in 1597. His family were merchants with significant landholdings, and he attended the Jesuit school at Beziers, where he decided in his final year to join the Jesuits.

Regis’ priestly studies were interrupted by periods of teaching, and he was known for the care he took for his students. He was known for his dedication to prayer, rising after a few hours of sleep to pray through the rest of the night.

In 1630, he was ordained and began working with victims of plague, ministering to both their bodily and spiritual needs. He was sent to teach and then to assist the Bishop of Montpellier in recalling Catholics to the practice of their faith after the ravages of religious war.

Regis set about organising ministries to prisoners, ensuring they were properly fed, and to prostitutes, ensuring they had practical alternatives for their lives. Over the following eight years, Regis’ quiet simplicity of ministry had a profound impact on those to whom he ministered.

In 1634, he was sent to Puy. Here he built a refuge, Saint Agatha’s, for prostitutes wishing to begin new lives. The remaining years of his life were spent going from town to town, diocese to diocese, over long distances to bring God’s message to people.

Regis travelled by foot and predominantly in the cold of winter, when farmers were not very preoccupied by their work, begging for his food as he went. He heard confessions, offered spiritual guidance, preached, celebrated Mass, and taught the children. He worked devotedly for the wellbeing of the poor, and visited prisons.

He did not settle comfortably in any one place but was willing to reach out to any place in need, and especially to those most excluded in communities such as former prisoners and prostitutes. For his later works, he was sometimes criticised and undermined, but he faithfully persevered in working for and with those most in need.

In December 1640, Regis had a premonition he would soon die. He undertook a retreat to prepare for this and then went back to ministering to the people in his care. Over the Christmas period of that year, hearing many confessions and celebrating Mass, he contracted pneumonia, and died on 31 December.

Regis is remembered here for the simple generosity of his life; he was willing to travel wherever people had need for a spiritual guide. He is a patron saint for altar servers.

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Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez SJ (1532–1617) The student services’ lounge at the Senior School has been named after Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez SJ.

Born in 1532 in Segovia, Spain, Alphonsus Rodriguez went to study at one of the first Jesuit schools at Alcala. He returned home when his father died suddenly, and took over the family textile business. He married Mary at the age of 26, and the couple had a daughter and two sons, but Alphonsus was a widower by age 31, with only a threeyear-old son still living.

By the time he was 40, he suffered further loss with the death of his mother and his only remaining son. During this time, he thought about what God may be asking of him in all this suffering. He reassessed his life and discerned to apply to join the Jesuits.

Alphonsus lacked formal education, and entered the Jesuits as a Brother in 1571. For the next 45 years, he served as doorkeeper at the Jesuit College in Majorca. As a doorkeeper, he received visitors, delivered messages, ran errands, consoled the sick, gave advice to the troubled, and distributed alms to the needy.

He generously gave himself to God, seeing the face of God in those he met at the door each day. In his memoirs, Alphonsus tells that each time the bell rang he looked at the door and envisioned that it was God seeking admittance. On the way to the door, he would say: “I am coming, Lord!”

Alphonsus not only held the key to the door, he had the key that helped others unlock their inner life. He had perfected the art of spiritual conversation. Out of his humility and the simplicity of his ministry, he was able to engage others in a way that led them to greater depth and love of Jesus. He ministered to visitors and reached out to others who lived with pain and uncertainty.

From this unpretentious role, he managed to exert an astounding influence on many, including civic leaders.

His encouraging wisdom and direction supported the Jesuits in training. Alphonsus’ counsel deeply influenced Saint Peter Claver and guided him to the Jesuit mission in Cartagena, Colombia. Peter Claver went on to dedicate the rest of his life to defending, protecting, and nursing newly arrived African slaves.

Alphonsus is remembered here for the way in which he came to find joy in hardship and was able to reframe failure as grace, a mysterious encounter with God who suffered for us. He inspires us to deepen our love of Jesus, through prayer, simplicity of life, and humble service.

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Saint Peter Faber SJ (1506-1546) The music and drama building at the Senior School has been named after Saint Peter Faber SJ.

Peter Faber was born in Savoy, not far from Geneva, in 1506. He was born to a poor family, and it was only by his extraordinary intellect that he was able to study at the University of Paris. It was there, in 1525, that he met Ignatius of Loyola. He helped Ignatius with his academic studies, and Ignatius helped Faber find where God was leading him.

With Ignatius and Francis Xavier, Faber was one of the first three Companions in the Society of Jesus. He was the first Jesuit ordained and the first to die. Three weeks after he was ordained, he celebrated the Mass in which the founders of the Jesuits pronounced their vows at Montmartre on 15 August 1534.

He led the Jesuits as they discerned in Venice whether to establish a new Religious Congregation, and what form it should take. After the companions had agreed to form an Order, Faber gave it form by example. From 1539, Faber began seven years of travel throughout Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, and Portugal. It was a hallmark of these early Jesuits to live their lives quavis mundi plaga (in any place in the world). Jesuit houses were expected to be campsites, not monasteries.

Faber gave the Spiritual Exercises, preached, heard confessions, taught theology, and participated in talks that would promote unity and renewal in the Church at the time of the Reformation. When he was sent to Germany in 1541, he found the Church in such disarray that it left his heart ‘tormented by an intolerable pain’. He worked for the renewal of the Church ‘one person at a time’, leading many in the Spiritual Exercises. Ignatius believed him to be the best giver of the Spiritual Exercises there was.

Princes and priests would find him a gentle source of instruction and guidance leading to renewal. He could converse with others in a way in which they felt heard and appreciated. Faber was good with people because he had learnt to converse with God. In 1546, he left Spain for the Council of Trent designated as a periti (expert witness) by the Pope. On the way, exhausted and affected by fever, he died. He was only 40 years old.

Jesuits have held Faber in special affection. He has been an inspiration to Pope Francis: “His ability to dialogue with everyone, even the most remote and including opponents; his simple virtue - a certain ingenuity, immediate availability, and careful interior discernment; and his capacity for significant and resilient decisions while being uncompromisingly gracious.”

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Saint Robert Bellarmine SJ (1542-1621) The main classroom block and ground floor function room at the Senior School have been named after Saint Robert Bellarmine SJ.

Bellarmine was born at Montepulciano in Tuscany in 1541, the nephew of a Cardinal, later Pope Marcellus II. He entered the Jesuits in 1560, and his aptitude for scholarship and teaching led him to lecture in Leuven in Flanders and the Roman College in Rome. He was given the Chair of Controversial Theology and became Rector in Rome. He fostered a spirit of service among the students. Later, he was made Jesuit Provincial of Naples.

As inter-religious controversy raged, Catholic leaders invited Bellarmine to teach. He was effective in calling people to spiritual renewal with gentleness and good humour. He appreciated the ideas of Protestant writers, and argued points of theology with respect for his adversaries. He wrote De Controversiis, a significant book about matters in the Catholic Protestant disputes.

In 1597, Pope Clement VIII recalled him to Rome and made him Examiner of Bishops, Consultor of the Holy Office, and a Cardinal. Clement stated: “The Church of God had not his equal in learning.” Appointed Archbishop of Capua, he lived simply, even pawning his episcopal ring and giving the wall hangings to the poor. Bellarmine denounced corruption in the Papal court, and devised a more spiritual and consultative way for choosing Popes.

Bellarmine was drawn into the controversy surrounding Galileo. A number of Jesuits recognised the achievement of Galileo and took his findings on their mission to China. Bellarmine had shown great interest in Galileo’s discoveries, and had friendly correspondence with him.

Given the sensitivities within the Church in 1616 about the Copernican revolution, Bellarmine enjoined Galileo to discuss the concept of the earth revolving around the sun only with other learned individuals and to categorise the idea as theoretical. Galileo treasured a letter signed by Bellarmine that he had not been told to deny his opinions.

In 1633, long after Bellarmine’s death, Galileo faced another trial. He was summoned before the Inquisition after he had published Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems. Sadly, Bellarmine was no longer alive to represent the nuance and balance he found in his conversations with Galileo in 1616.

Bellarmine died on 17 September 1621. He is acknowledged for his spirit of prayer, gift of intellect, and rigour of conscience. Though he moved in powerful circles in the company of the influential, he lived simply, with humility, and with generous service of the poor. Bellarmine was the Spiritual Director of the young Aloysius Gonzaga, and asked that he be buried at the feet of his young protégé.

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Saint Aloysius Gonzaga SJ (1568-1591) The mosaic in The Chapel of the Holy Name features an image of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga SJ. He is also the Patron for Youth.

Born into the influential Gonzaga family in 1568, Aloysius’ father was the Marquis of Castiglione, Lord of the lands in northern Italy. At a young age, he was inducted into his father’s military and courtly life, being prepared as the heir. Aloysius was awakened to the spiritual life as a boy and, by age 11, was conversing about the Faith with his peers and needy children.

Aloysius knew the privileges of wealth and power, but was unfulfilled by them. While he walked at his father’s side on military campaigns, such a life had not captured his imagination. He saw worldly desires and honour as misplaced, and ways of taking wealth from the poor as wicked. He was disturbed by the fraud, deception, and backstabbing of the courtly lifestyle.

Aloysius had received a classical education at the courts of Florence, Mantua, and Madrid, where he served the Spanish king. He travelled widely in Europe, learning the ways of nobility. His father saw Aloysius as an ideal diplomat, filled with calm intelligence, strength, and selfpossession. Aloysius, however, was already considering religious life. He believed “It is better to be a servant of God than king of the whole world.”

Aloysius struggled to find where God was leading him.

Month after month, he prayed “Lord, direct me for the best.” A book about Jesuit missionaries in India opened him to the idea of entering the Jesuits. Becoming a Jesuit would mean giving up his inheritance. When this caused conflict with his father, he exclaimed that he was ad majora natus – born for greater things.

As his father relented, Aloysius held firm, and he entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1585, having given up all rights to inherit his father’s vast fortune. His father said, “I am giving up the dearest thing I possess in the world,” but encouraged him with, “Go where you wish … I give you my blessing.”

As a 19 year old, he took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. In 1591, plague broke out in Rome, and the Jesuits opened a hospital. Aloysius carried the sick that he found in the streets, and washed and fed them. He was infected later that year and died, aged only 23.

Aloysius Gonzaga is the patron saint of young people and AIDS sufferers, and is recalled here for the example his life gives of one who discerned a call to serve God, and followed that call giving up wealth and power, and ultimately his life.

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Saint Peter Claver SJ (1580-1654) The meeting room adjacent to Rodruiguez’ student services lounge at the Senior School is named after Saint Peter Claver SJ.

Peter Claver was a Catalan Jesuit who served people forcibly taken from Africa to the Americas to be sold as slaves. He was born in 1580, and after university studies in Barcelona, he entered the Jesuits.

During studies in Mallorca, he came to know Br Alphonso Rodriguez who encouraged him to become a missionary in the Spanish colonies of Latin America.

He was sent to Colombia and was deeply disturbed by the harsh treatment and living conditions of the slaves who were brought from Angola and the Congo. Ablebodied men and women were captured in West Africa and sold in Latin America to be used for labour.

Claver began to work with another Jesuit, Alonso de Sandoval, who had devoted his life to caring for the slaves from Africa. Claver dedicated the rest of his life to relieving their suffering.

Accompanied by interpreters and carrying food and medicines, he would meet incoming slave ships as they entered the port in Cartagena, treat the sick, and try to comfort the terrified people caged there.

During the 40 years of his ministry in Colombia, he brought food and medicine to many vulnerable people, and defended their rights. He also baptised around 300,000 people. Baptism meant that people were meant to be treated humanely by the Christians. It took some time before Christian powers condemned the slave trade.

Having given so much of his life to the care of others, it was sad that he was largely neglected in his old age.

When he died, he was regarded as a saint, and devotion to him has been strong since. He was canonised in 1888.

St Peter Claver is known in Adelaide. In 1919, a St Peter Claver Church was built on the site of the present St Patrick’s Special School, Dulwich. In 1934, Dulwich became a separate parish, but it was not until 1964 that the current St Peter Claver Church was dedicated.

St Peter Claver is considered a heroic example of the Christian model of love and of the exercise of human rights. He is the patron saint of slaves.

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INTERESTING JESUITS IN HISTORY

Fr Matteo Ricci SJ, SoG (1552-1610) The mosaic in The Chapel of the Holy Name features an image of Fr Matteo Ricci SJ.

Matteo Ricci was born in 1552, the same year that the great missionary Francis Xavier SJ died. Ricci was born to a prominent family, attended a Jesuit school, and then was sent to Rome to complete the training that would prepare him to follow his father as a leader of his city.

In Rome, while studying law, he again came into contact with the Jesuits. This contact led him to enter the Jesuits in 1571.

Ricci studied in Rome and had a particular interest in mathematics and astrology. He was interested in serving in the foreign missions and was sent to India in 1578. He was ordained there in 1580 after further studies in Goa. He was missioned to Macao, the Portuguese trading post off the coast of China. He arrived there in 1582, quickly learning the Chinese language and becoming one of the first western scholars to master the Chinese script.

Unexpectedly, a Chinese local governor invited Ricci and another Jesuit to enter his Province. Using Jesuit principles of acculturation, they entered with shaved heads and dressed as Buddhist holy men. They engaged people by some impressive European objects and the breadth of their learning and scholarship. With enough spoken and written Chinese to communicate freely, Ricci tried his hand at whatever would help him develop relationships with officials.

Ricci spent 12 years in a number of Provinces in the south before travelling north to be closer to Beijing, entering the area in the dress of the educated elite. He became well known amongst the intelligentsia of the country, and produced works in many scientific fields. He translated Confucian texts into Latin, and developed a Roman alphabet for Chinese language.

Ricci moved to Beijing in 1600 and tried in vain to meet the Emperor, whom he wished to convert. He did have some success converting others in the Chinese elite and worked with one of the leaders of the early Chinese Christians, the Ming Dynasty political leader Xu Guangqi. Together they translated geometry into Chinese. This task was all the more difficult because certain concepts had no Chinese equivalent terminology. Ever creative, Ricci and his companion invented terms for them, which Chinese mathematicians still use today.

Ricci represented the breadth of the humanistic learning undertaken by Jesuits. He achieved remarkable feats of scholarship in the face of much adversity and peril, being a stranger in a strange land. He translated language dictionaries and composed prayer books and catechisms. He was a man of deep faith.

He is remembered here for that faith, scholarship, and the way his ministry was ultimately one of friendship. He died on 11 May in 1610.

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INTERESTING JESUITS IN HISTORY

Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709) The Art, Design, and Technology Building at the Senior School is named after Andrea Pozzo.

Andrea Pozzo was born in Trent in 1642 and joined the Jesuits as a Brother in 1665. He studied painting in Milan, Genoa, and Venice. He was a painter, architect, stage designer and art scholar. He wrote about perspective geometry as a means to aid artists and architects. His book Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum is still in publication today.

Br Pozzo is famous for his masterful applications of his perspective art. He painted the dome, apse and ceiling of Sant Ignazio Church in Rome. On the flat, massive ceiling of the church he painted a fresco, using the illusionistic technique quadratura, about the missionary spirit of the Jesuits to go to the frontiers of the world. The beautiful ceiling celebrates Jesuit missionary endeavour. The “dome”, finished in 1685, surprised and filled the Romans with enthusiasm. Br Pozzo’s perspectives draw the eye upward emphasizing the columns which rose up boldly in keeping with the lines of the church. Many visitors still see the trompe-l’oeil as a perfect dome, although a fire later darkened the canvass so the illusion is not as realistic as it once appeared.

Br Pozzo also expressed a new tendency in freer use of decorative elements in stage design. He tried to find a focal point of the perspective out of sight of the audience by displacing it to one side, thereby creating a more genuine effect. Three centuries after he died, the cinema would put into practice some of his principles. Pozzo fulfills the legacy of past Jesuits’ contribution to Baroque stage design.

On the invitation of Emperor Leopold I in 1702, Br Pozzo moved to Vienna, where he worked for the sovereign, the court, Prince Johann Adam von Liechtenstein, various religious orders and churches. His most significant surviving work in Vienna is the monumental ceiling fresco of Liechtenstein Palace. Br Pozzo died in 1709.

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Fr Athanasius Kircher SJ (1601-1680) The flexible learning room at Ignatius Early Years is named after Fr Athanasius Kircher SJ. The staff study on the third level of the Caroline Chisholm Building at the Senior School is also named after him.

Athanasius Kircher SJ was born in 1601 in Germany. He joined the Jesuits after having left school. A polymath, he was known as the Master of One Hundred Arts, and has been compared to Leonardo da Vinci.

Kircher taught in the University of Würtzberg from 1628, and the University of Avignon in France from 1631, before being posted to the Collegio Romano in 1633 where he was based until he died in 1680.

Kircher knew about 20 ancient and modern languages.

He collected a remarkable assortment of antiquities and scientific equipment, and founded the first public museum.

He lectured on mathematics, ethics, physics, and oriental languages, and led conferences on malaria, the plague, magnetism, and gravity. He published on Egyptology, geology, music theory, sundials, and calendars. He was interested in topics that included herbs, astrology, mining, dragons, demons, weather, eclipses, fossils, gravity, bioluminescence, the sun, and the moon.

He wrote on symbolic logic, and devised mathematical tables. His interest in mechanical devices led him to devise the lantern slide, the forerunner of projectors, as well as engineering megaphones. Kircher’s work contributed to the invention of calculators.

His understanding of the evolutionary process enabled him to suggest the germ theory of disease. He attributed the plague to organisms that he had observed under a microscope. He climbed into the volcano Vesuvius, and wrote a book on vulcanology. He mapped the city of Atlantis. Scientists used his work on hieroglyphics and the Egyptian language to interpret the Rosetta stone.

Kircher wanted to be a missionary in China, but the importance of his university teaching and research meant he was unable to realise this dream. However, that did not prevent him writing a massive treatise on China that included mythology, cartography, and Chinese characters.

Kircher practised a unique brand of science, drawing on a syncretism of art and religion with science. Towards the end of his life, his reputation declined as the rationalist era emerged. Rene Descartes, himself a Jesuit alumnus, described Kircher as more quacksalver than savant.

However, in this postmodern era, many are drawn again to his eclecticism, transcendence of academic boundaries, taste for trivia, and technomania. He is recalled here for the way in which he took seriously the breadth of human knowledge, experience, and possibility as a faith response to God’s presence in the world.

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Fr Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (1844-1889) The senior years study room adjacent to the Campion Library at the Senior School is named after Fr Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ.

Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, England, on 28 July 1844. He was the oldest of nine children, and his parents were devout Anglicans. Hopkins showed an early interest in the visual arts, and became a skilled draughtsman. Hopkins attended Highgate School and then Balliol College, Oxford University, where he was a keen socialite and prolific poet.

While at Oxford, he decided to become a Catholic, and discussed his conversion with John Henry Newman who received him into the Church on 21 October 1866. His conversion caused his estrangement from members of his family and from many friends.

While teaching at the Oratory in Birmingham, he felt a call to religious life and, after having burned all his poems, entered the Jesuits in 1868. He did not write poetry for the next seven years.

Hopkins later realised, happily, that there was no conflict between his poetry and religious life, and he began writing again. In 1875 he showed a capacity for brilliance when he wrote his great shipwreck ode, The Wreck of the Deutschland, and later 11 brilliant sonnets about nature and God. He continued to write poetry throughout his life.

In 1877 he was ordained, and for the next seven years travelled around England ministering in schools and parishes. He was an enlivening preacher. He struggled, though, to have his work published, and found the regular movements around England associated with his priestly ministry distracting for his poetry. He was appointed Professor of Classics at University College, Dublin, but he did not find teaching easy and he was not an effective teacher.

Hopkins carried with him a sense of melancholy, at times to a debilitating degree, throughout his life. Nevertheless, he was well liked by those with whom he lived and to whom he ministered, and he had a deep sense of the beauty of God revealed in nature. He wrote, in such a life affirming way, that the “... world is charged with the grándeur of God,” and his last words were, “I am so happy, I am so happy. I loved my life.”

In 1889, he died aged 44. Almost none of his work was published at the time of his death. It was not until 1918 that his work was published and he came to be regarded as a literary visionary.

He is remembered here because of that vision: a vision of God active in the beauty of nature. He was dedicated to giving rich and vivid voice to that reality.

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Princess Juana (Mateo) SJ (1535-1573) The meeting room adjacent to reception within the Caroline Chisholm Building at the Senior School is named after Princess Juana (Mateo) SJ.

Princess Juana was born in Madrid to Charles V, the first king of a united Aragon and Castile, and Isabella of Portugal, the daughter of King Manuel I of Portugal. In 1552, the princess, aged 17, married John of Portugal, the heir to the Portuguese throne. John died two years later, and their only child, Sebastian, was born a few weeks after his death. Juana returned to Spain while her son grew up in Portugal.

Juana had a talent for exercising power well. When her brother, Philip II of Spain, married Mary Tudor and went to England, she became regent of Spain, and from 1554 to 1559 was an effective ruler.

Juana had an additional ambition to join the Society of Jesus. The idea was heaped with danger for the early Jesuits. Her decision would affect her father and brother’s dynastic marriage plans for her. Yet, the fledgling Jesuit order could not afford to alienate Juana, as it depended on her good favour for its existence in Spain.

In 1554, the Jesuits were 14 years old, and men were flocking into the Order. Women, too, wanted either to found a separate female branch of the Order or to enter the Jesuits directly. A decade earlier in 1545, Pope Paul III had directed Ignatius to accept Isabel Roser and two other women as members of a women’s branch of the Society of Jesus. This initial experiment did not work out, and in 1547, Paul III forbade the Society to take under its obedience communities of religious women.

Juana’s enquiry came almost 10 years later. She wanted membership in the Society itself. So perilous was the project that a pseudonym was used to correspond about her. Ignatius appointed a committee, which recommended that Juana enter the Jesuits as a ‘permanent scholastic’: truly a Jesuit but forever in formation. This allowed for the greatest flexibility in this most unusual situation. When Juana pronounced her three religious vows as a Jesuit, absolute secrecy was enjoined on everyone. She could make no obvious change in her manner of life, so the observance of the vows had to be subtle.

In public, she was known as Princess Juana, but among Jesuits who knew the secret of her vows, she was called Mateo. As far as is known, Juana lived the rest of her rather short life as the only woman to live and die a Jesuit.

She died at the age of 38 in 1573, and is remembered here as one who saw the richness of following Ignatius and who felt drawn to live this the best she could.

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Pedro Arrupe SJ, SoG (1907-1991) The main staff study adjacent to the staff common room within the Caroline Chisholm Building at the Senior School is named after Pedro Arrupe SJ.

Pedro Arrupe was born in the Basque region of Spain in 1907. He began studying medicine at the University of Madrid but, being affected by the poverty of Madrid, and after having witnessed a miracle at Lourdes, he left medical school to enter the Jesuits in 1927.

The Spanish government expelled the Jesuits in 1932, so Arrupe left to continue studies elsewhere in Europe and the United States of America. He was ordained in Kansas in 1936. In 1938, Arrupe went to Japan, beginning 27 years as a missionary in that country. Arrested at the outbreak of the Second World War, he found inner calm based on a radical trust in God. He was the Superior of the Jesuit community just out of Hiroshima when, in 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on that city. Arrupe led one of the first rescue parties, taking many wounded people into the community compound, operating a makeshift hospital, and ensuring they were given care for as long as was needed. The bomb and its aftermath profoundly affected him. He went on to be the leader of all Jesuits in Japan.

In 1965, he was elected Superior General of the Society of Jesus. Arrupe’s leadership guided the Jesuits through the period of reform following the Second Vatican Council.

He saw the possibility in returning to the initial charism of the order, and has himself been described as a ‘second founder’ of the Jesuits.

Arrupe offered visionary leadership, recognising especially the need for a commitment to justice as an integral and inseparable part of the promotion of faith. A decree of Jesuit 32nd General Congregation in 1975, Our Mission Today: The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice, articulated the key elements of his vision.

This vision led to the establishment of many new Jesuit works, most notably Jesuit Refugee Service, which assists refugees and displaced peoples around the world.

In 1981, Arrupe suffered a debilitating stroke, and in 1983 he resigned as Superior General. He died on 5 February 1991.

Pedro Arrupe is remembered for his profound influence on the Jesuits and the Church in seeing that Christian faith could not be lived without a commitment to justice for those in need. Arrupe’s belief in justice informed his understanding of the goal of all Jesuit ministries, including education. He said, “Today our prime educational objective must be to form men and women for others: men and women who will live not for themselves but for God.”

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NON-JESUIT SAINTS AND HOLY PEOPLE

Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop (1842-1909) The Junior School library and the meeting room adjacent to reception within the Caroline Chisholm Building at the Senior School are both named after Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop.

Mary MacKillop was born in Melbourne in 1842, the eldest of seven children. Mary started work at the age of 14 as a clerk in Melbourne and later as a teacher in Portland. To provide for her needy family, she took a job as governess in 1860 at Penola in South Australia. This brought her into contact with a priest, Julian Tenison Woods, who was concerned about the lack of education in South Australia.

Woods invited Mary and her sisters, Annie and Lexie, to open Saint Joseph’s School in a disused stable in Penola in 1866. At the age of 25, Mary adopted the religious name Sister Mary of the Cross, and formed the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart in Adelaide.

Dedicated to the education of the children of the poor, this was the first religious order to be founded by an Australian. By the end of 1869, more than 70 Sisters were educating children at 21 schools in Adelaide and rural South Australia. She found solid support from Jewish benefactors, Protestant friends, and the Catholic community.

Bishop Sheil and his advisor, Father Horan, excommunicated Mary in 1871 for alleged insubordination. It took several months for Bishop Sheil to lift this censure. In the most difficult of times, the Jesuits, especially Fr Joseph Tappeiner SJ, gave Mary solid support throughout.

Mary did not attack those who undermined her work, but continued in the way she believed God was calling her.

She kept her focus on the good work to be done. When Mary went to Rome, the Jesuit Anton Anderledy, later Superior General, assisted her in getting approbation from the Pope for her Sisters.

The Sisters of Saint Joseph expanded throughout South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand.

Mary travelled to many of the Order’s foundations to offer guidance and support. They opened orphanages for the young, homes for the destitute, and refuges for former prisoners and prostitutes.

During the later years of her life, Mary had problems with her health. She died on 8 August 1909, and was buried at Saint Mary’s Church, North Sydney. She was canonised as Australia’s first official Saint on 17 October 2010.

She accomplished so much in her lifetime and is remembered here for the rich legacy that has benefited people through the work of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, not only in Australia but also in New Zealand and other parts of the world, stretching from East Timor to Peru.

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Caroline Chisholm (1808-1877) The student and staff services building is named after Caroline Chisholm. An image of her also features in a mosaic in the Chapel of the Holy Name.

Born into an evangelical Anglican family in 1808 in Northampton, England, Caroline Jones converted to Catholicism and married a Scot, Captain Archibald Chisholm. She accompanied her husband to India and then in 1838 to Australia.

She was upset at the plight of many immigrant young women. They had been encouraged to come by the British Government to address the shortage of women, but were neglected and left without assistance. Many had great difficulty surviving, having arrived with little money and understanding of their new land.

Beginning in a small cottage, and later expanding into larger premises, Caroline welcomed these young girls, providing them with shelter and training, and finding them good employment.

Caroline set up an employment agency for her ‘Bounty Girls’, settling some 11,000 young women. She would even accompany them into the bush when they were afraid to go on their own. She developed a plan for settling families on the land with long leases. Her social development strategy grew from alleviating immediate distress to promoting reforms and advocating a better migration scheme.

Caroline returned to Britain and enlisted the help of influential people such as Charles Dickens in the early 1850s. She arranged for ships to take young families and the families of convicts already in Australia to escape the dreadful poverty they faced in England by migrating to Australia. She opened a school in Sydney in the early 1860s.

At a time when women had few rights and little or no voice in public affairs, Caroline Chisholm stood boldly against the male establishment and drew attention to the plight of young women and the poor. She was also a driving force in changing our Australian colony from a penal settlement to a fledgling nation through the immigration of young families.

She encountered the obstruction and indifference of officialdom. She was a social reformer and advocate for the most vulnerable of her society. She was a visionary leader and a shrewd political operator. She was a true feminist.

She scorned material reward and public recognition. She was well supported by her family, and a devoted wife and mother. She and her husband returned to England in 1866 and lived in humble lodgings in London. She died in 1877, and is buried in a grave at Northampton that has ‘The emigrant’s friend’ inscribed on its headstone.

It is for that example of compassion and service of others that she is recalled here.

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Dr. Sr. Mary Glowrey (1887-1957) The multipurpose building at the Junior School that features STEM facilities is named after Mary Glowrey.

Born in regional Victoria, Mary Glowrey grew up in a loving faith filled home. At 13 she received a bursary to attend South Melbourne College. Boarding at the Good Shepherd Convent, she was College Dux in 1904. Mary earnt a scholarship to the University of Melbourne and studied in the medical faculty and did her clinical training at St Vincent’s Hospital. She graduated with Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in 1910.

Mary worked at Christchurch Hospital and was among the first women residential doctors in New Zealand. She was appointed to Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, the Queen Victoria Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne.

Mary gave free medical advice to those who were struggling financially. She lived in a poor suburb and often gave away her clothes and blankets to help those in need.

In 1915 she read about the medical work In India of a Scottish, Catholic doctor. A religious order in India, the Society of Jesus Mary Joseph, were seeking medical women to join them. Mary discerned her vocation with her Jesuit spiritual director, Fr William Lockington SJ. She undertook further studies in gynaecology, obstetrics, and ophthalmology, and was conferred the Doctor of Medicine degree. A month later, Mary departed for Guntur, India where she joined the Society of Jesus Mary Joseph in 1920.

In India, Mary and her religious Sisters provided basic healthcare to outlying villages. They worked in the heat, mud and dust attending to people in desperate need. Mary supervised the medical care of hundreds of thousands of people. She researched traditional healing methods and practised a holistic approach to health care, recognising the connection of the physical, psychological, and spiritual.

Mary led the development of medical facilities including the founding of Saint Joseph’s Hospital in 1925 which became accredited as a medical Training School. She helped develop a Catholic health care system to train women. The Catholic Hospital Association was founded in 1943 and she was its first President. Today this Association has over 3,500 member institutions and cares for more than 20 million people each year in India.

Mary died in 1957 and was buried in Bangalore. Her life benefited many, especially the most vulnerable during her 37 years in India. Her commitment was strengthened by her deep devotion to the Holy Spirit and her trust in God’s guidance. The cause for her canonisation commenced in 2010 and in 2013 she was declared a Servant of God. Dr. Sr. Mary Glowrey was an exemplary of our Ignatian principle of cura personalis – care for the individual. May we continue to use her life as an example of being men and women for others as we live out a faith that does justice.

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Saint Genesius to an ancient Roman tradition, Saint Genesius (3rd-4th Century) According was an actor of some renown who was martyred for the

The multipurpose demountable adjacent to the Baulderstone Oval is named after Saint Genesius.

Christian faith. A seventh-century document, The Acts of the Martyrs, recounts the story. There is some evidence of an earlier devotion from soon after the time of his death.

In 303, the Roman Emperor Diocletian was in Rome to celebrate 20 years of his rule. This coincided with the height of his persecution of Christians, many of whom he had executed. Genesius was a gifted actor, comedian, and playwright, and the leader of a theatrical troupe in Rome. Given the persecution, Genesius saw advantage in constructing a play that mocked Christianity. To research his play, he convinced Christian leaders to give him instruction so that he might be baptised. Having discovered sufficient information for his purposes, he left the community.

As things happened, the Emperor was present at the performance of the play Genesius had written. He was playing the role of a sick man confined to bed, crying out for baptism. When the acted ‘baptism’ occurred on stage, Genesius was struck by the grace of God. He converted to Christianity and started to profess faith in Jesus Christ.

The Acts of the Martyrs records that he addressed the Emperor saying, “I came here today to please an earthly Emperor but what I have done is to please a heavenly King. I came here to give you laughter, but what I have done is to give joy to God.” Enraged, Diocletian had him and the other actors arrested. The others convinced their captors that they were not Christians, but Genesius could not be persuaded to denounce Christianity. He was sent to Plautia, prefect of the praetorium, to be tortured. Despite his agonies, Genesius persisted in his faith, and he was beheaded.

From early times, Genesius has been considered the patron saint of actors, comedians, and those who work in the theatrical arts. He is remembered here for this reason.

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Saint Cecilia Cecilia is remembered as one of the Roman martyrs.

(2nd Century) StAccounts vary about her life, and a seventh-century document, The Acts of the Martyrs, records her story.

The staff study demountable adjacent to the athletics track is named after Saint Cecilia.

Cecilia was said to be a noble woman of Rome who, with her husband, Valerian, his brother Tiburtius, and a Roman soldier named Maximus, suffered martyrdom in about 230, under the Emperor Alexander Severus. Others suggest they were executed in Sicily under Emperor Marcus Aurelius in about 180 AD. According to the story, Cecilia had made a vow of virginity. Despite this, her parents forced her to marry a nobleman named Valerian. During her wedding ceremony she was said to have sung in her heart to God and, before the consummation of her nuptials, she told her husband she had taken a vow of virginity and had an angel protecting her.

Valerian asked to see the angel as proof, and Cecilia told him he would have eyes to see once he travelled to the third milestone on the Appian Way. Here he was baptised

by Pope Urban.

Following his baptism, Valerian returned to his wife and found an angel at her side. The angel then crowned Cecilia with a chaplet of rose and lily, and when Valerian’s brother, Tibertius, heard of the angel and his brother’s baptism, he also was baptised. Together the brothers dedicated their lives to burying the saints who were murdered each day by the Prefect of the city, Turcius Almachius.

Both brothers were eventually arrested and brought before the Prefect, and they were executed. Cecilia was arrested and condemned to be executed. The story is that the executioner struck her three times but was unable to decapitate her, so he left her bleeding and she lived for three days.

St Cecilia is a patron saint of music, because she heard heavenly music in her heart when she was married. It is for this reason that she is remembered here.

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PRECURSORS OF THE AUSTRALIAN JESUIT MISSION

Fr Alois Kranewitter SJ (1817-1880) The hall at the eastern end of the Bellarmine Building at the Senior School is named after Fr Aloysius Kranewitter SJ.

Alois (Aloysius) Kranewitter was born in 1817 in Tyrol, Austria. He entered the Society of Jesus on 21 September 1836. In 1848, he was ordained, and soon after travelled to South Australia with another Jesuit, Maximillian Klinkowstrom, the two having volunteered for the journey.

They travelled with a group of 80 German migrants, led

by Franz Weikert, who were immigrating to Australia and wished to have a chaplain accompany them.

The group arrived in Port Adelaide on 8 December 1848, and six days later Weikert, Kranewitter, and 13 others set out for Clare, the Bishop of Adelaide having commissioned Kranewitter to have care of Germanspeaking people in country areas. In the Clare Valley, they found land at what was to be called Sevenhill, and began farming it. Kranewitter worked among these and other farmers, often travelling significant distances as the only priest in an area including Clare, Burra, Undalya, and Saddleworth.

In 1851, a site was chosen for a Jesuit residence at Sevenhill, and two years later building began, including the building of a weatherboard chapel with the help of newly arrived Jesuit brothers. Even before the building began, vines had been planted on the site. Kranewitter is acknowledged as having being shrewd in his early management of the property.

In 1856, Kranewitter returned to Austria to complete his Jesuit training. He returned to Sevenhill some three years later. He remained based in Sevenhill, travelling for pastoral work through the surrounding towns and engaging in some teaching at the newly established school, Saint Aloysius College, Sevenhill. His contemporaries knew him as a model religious and as one who was a good spiritual guide.

Kranewitter had been to the Victorian goldfields in Bendigo in 1852. In 1870, he returned to Victoria to work with the German-speaking community in Melbourne. He was based at Richmond but was known to travel widely to be with those who might benefit from his pastoral ministry. He died in Heidelberg in 1880 while giving a retreat in what was then a rural parish.

Kranewitter is remembered here because of his significant contribution to founding the Jesuit presence in South Australia, and Australia at large. Kranewitter’s establishing a mission at Sevenhill provided a base from which Jesuits could minister to remote areas, as well as a place for the first Australian Jesuit School, seminary, novitiate, and scholasticate, and wine cellars.

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Fr Josef Tappeiner SJ (1820-1882) The meeting room adjacent to the Kranewitter Hall at the Senior School is named after Fr Josef Tappeiner SJ.

Josef Tappeiner was born in 1820 in Tyrol, Austria. He entered the Society of Jesus on 11 August 1841. After studies in rhetoric, philosophy, and theology, he was ordained in 1848 and, after some further studies, was sent to the Australian Jesuit Mission.

He arrived at Sevenhill, South Australia, on 10 October 1852. A capacity for wise and prudent leadership meant that Tappeiner was Superior of the Jesuit Community at Sevenhill between 1856 and 1861, and at Norwood between 1870 and 1873; he was also the Superior of the Jesuit Mission in Australia between 1866 and 1870, and again from 1873 to 1877.

Tappeiner’s primary work in the mission was pastoral; he often travelled great distances on horseback to minister to the faithful. He was well regarded as a retreat giver. He is said to have drawn people by his theological knowledge combined with a profound spiritual wisdom.

Tappeiner’s retreats to the clergy of the Diocese of Melbourne were well received and helped build pressure for a Jesuit presence in that city.

Sound theology, spiritual wisdom, and prudent leadership made him especially adept to act as a spiritual director for Mother Mary MacKillop, particularly in the time of her persecution by Bishop Shiel and Fr Horan. In 1871, the Bishop of Adelaide, Bishop Shiel, excommunicated Saint Mary. As the Superior of Norwood Parish, Tappeiner ensured sanctuary for MacKillop and her companions.

He advised Mary in both spiritual and worldly matters, and his support offered her deep consolation. MacKillop wrote of Tappiener’s ‘kindness and goodness’.

In 1882, Tappeiner died in Adelaide. It is estimated that fifteen thousand people followed his coffin to the railway station for his final journey to Sevenhill. There the church was filled for his funeral Mass.

He is remembered here because of his leadership of the early Jesuit Mission and the solidarity he showed to Mother Mary MacKillop. To offer spiritual guidance and fortitude to a person who is later canonized requires a depth of spiritual insight. In the context of MacKillop’s excommunication and the disbanding of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, Tappeiner is an example of one who showed faithful integrity in the face of strong forces to do otherwise.

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FIGURES IN THE HISTORY OF SAINT IGNATIUS’ COLLEGE

Fr Thomas Barden SJ (1910–1997) The staff common room at the Junior School is named after Fr Thomas Barden SJ.

Fr Thomas Barden was born in Dublin on 31 March 1910.

His twin, Hyacinth, joined the Loreto Sisters and lived and worked in Africa. His brother, William, was the last Archbishop of Tehran.

Thomas attended the Jesuit school, Mungret, and entered the Society of Jesus in 1927. He studied in Ireland and the Channel Islands, completing a BA in Celtic Studies at University College, Dublin, along with studies for the priesthood.

In 1935, he came to Australia and spent four years teaching at Saint Aloysius College, Sydney. After further studies in Ireland, he was ordained in 1944 and worked in a parish in Liverpool, England.

As with many from the Irish Province, Father Barden was missioned to Australia, returning to Saint Aloysius in 1945, then teaching at Saint Louis School, Perth, from 1948 to 1952. Students recalled him as inspirational. In 1954, he was appointed Headmaster of Saint Ignatius’ College Norwood, and is regarded as the co-founder of the school.

Father Barden was a firm disciplinarian, but he also displayed much humour and created the atmosphere of great rapport between students and staff, for which the College is known. He employed lay teachers early in the life of the school. Father Barden was challenging, exhorting, and never compromising in expectations, and these qualities did much to establish the fledgling school. Always engaging, he had the Irish gift of being an entertaining and witty storyteller, as well as being a good administrator.

In 1962, he went to Saint Thomas More College, the University College in Perth, as Dean of Students. He returned to Saint Louis School Perth, then to Saint Aloysius College Sydney in 1964, before coming to Saint Ignatius’ College Athelstone in 1975. Until 1984, he taught French and acted as a year level head. He was much respected in these roles.

He returned to Saint Aloysius College Sydney in 1985, and this was to be his last appointment. He worked in the school until 1993. Father Barden died on 3 June 1997, aged 87.

He is remembered here as a co-founder of Saint Ignatius’ College, setting a tone for staff and students and creating solid administrative foundations for the school. The Barden Room at the Junior Campus was opened in his honour in 1990.

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Fr John Batchelor SJ (1913–2015) The board room at the Junior School is named after Fr John Batchelor SJ.

John Batchelor was born on 16 December 1913 at Marnoo in the Wimmera district of western Victoria. He died in Sydney on 27 December 2015, aged 102.

John completed his schooling at Saint Patrick’s College, Ballarat in 1934 and joined the Jesuits the following year.

He mainly taught Religion at St Louis School, Perth, Saint Ignatius’ College, Norwood and Xavier College, Melbourne.

He was at Norwood from 1951-61 and was one of the founding priests at the newly-established Saint Ignatius’ College. He taught Grade Three for six years and Grades Four and Five for a further five years.

He remembered the first day of the College: “On Day One there were 55 pupils. We were supposed to start at nine a.m. but did not do so until noon. The Provincial, Fr Austin Kelly, over from Melbourne for the festivities, was sending frantic messages to get the show going. Not to be stampeded even by a meddling Provincial, Fr Aloysius (Lou) Dando gave the speech of welcome when all was ready.”

After an absence of 18 years, Father Batchelor returned to Saint Ignatius’ College, Norwood in 1978 as Co-ordinator of Religious Education, Religion teacher and spiritual father. Father Batchelor left Saint Ignatius’ College in 1983.

He returned to the Norwood Parish during 1995-98.

As well as a kindly presence in the College, his parish duties included administering the sacraments and visiting the sick and elderly, although by this time he was already into his eighties. He was missed by many members of the parish and College communities when he finally retired to Pymble, Sydney in 1999. Even then, aged 86, Fr Batchelor offered chaplaincy services to an aged care facility, McQuoin Park, Waitara a few days per week, where he himself eventually took up residence.

Short, gentle and with disarming simplicity, Fr Batchelor had a natural affinity with young children and he endeared himself to many people. Over the years, Father Batchelor’s spiritual care, conversations and friendships supported hundreds. His humble, good-natured manner and winning smile touched people’s lives and earned him the affection of fellow Jesuits. He had the ability to stand back and see life as a whole. He was a prayerful man, at peace with God and his neighbour.

The boardroom in the centre of the renovated Perrott House section of the Junior School was named the Fr John Batchelor SJ Boardroom in 2001. Father Batchelor is remembered here as one who was humble and goodnatured, with a winning smile and able to connect with others. A prayerful man, he was at peace with God and neighbour.

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Fr Thomas Perrott SJ (1899-1965) The meeting room adjacent to the Bellarmine Room at the Senior School is named after Fr Thomas Perrott SJ.

Thomas Perrott was born on 31 January 1899 in Cork, Ireland, and joined the Jesuits in 1916. Two of his brothers also entered the Society. In 1933 he was sent to Australia.

Prior to this he had completed his Jesuit training and had spent some years teaching at Clongowes Wood School.

In Australia Father Perrott was sent first to Xavier College, where he served as Division Prefect in 1933 and 1934. He spent the following three years at St Aloysius’ College, Milsons Point. At that school he assisted on improving the financial situation, the school having experienced some difficulties. He was also involved in the production of musicals. In 1938 he was sent to Perth to assist Fr Austin Kelly SJ establish St Louis School.

In 1950 Father Perrott came to Adelaide, and he began the tremendous work of preparing and adapting the buildings already at Norwood to the needs of a new college for boys. He completed this work with what was considered his characteristic enthusiasm and vigour. The next year he was the founding Headmaster, then termed Prefect of Studies, of Saint Ignatius’ College Adelaide. He remained in this role until 1953 when he returned to Perth.

Father Perrott was particularly regarded for his teaching of Mathematics. He spent considerable time preparing classes and reviewing the work of students, ensuring that his teaching was targeted to their particular needs. He was also the minister and bursar of the Jesuit community in Perth for 22 years, and in this role he assisted the financial development of the school.

He was also known for his work with various guilds and community groups, including Alcoholics Anonymous.

During school holidays he gave retreats to religious orders and occasionally gave spiritual lectures, accumulating 12 volumes of lectures on an array of spiritual topics.

Father Perrott died in 1965 after 49 years in the Society.

Fittingly, having been the first Jesuit missioned to Western Australia, he was the first Jesuit to be buried in that state. He is remembered here as a pioneer both in Western Australia and South Australia, establishing new schools with enthusiasm and energy, with an eye for financial sustainability.

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Fr Thomas Bourke SJ (1909-1990) The main oval at the Senior School is named after Fr Thomas Bourke SJ.

Thomas Bourke was born on 5 January 1909, and after having completed primary school he moved to Adelaide and lived with his grandmother in Norwood Parish. He attended a business college and began working at age 14.

In 1929 he entered the Jesuit novitiate.

He spent the next five years in Sydney. As part of his Jesuit training he taught at St Aloysius’ College Milsons Point and Saint Ignatius College Riverview. He mainly taught English and Latin. He then moved to Melbourne to complete his Jesuit studies. There he enjoyed staging plays and musicals.

In 1939 Bourke travelled to Ireland in the last group of Australian Jesuits to complete their studies there. He was ordained in Ireland in 1942 and then spent some time teaching in England and Ireland before returning to Australia in 1946.

Between 1946 and 1953 Father Bourke taught Philosophy and assisted the Novice Master at Loyola College Watsonia. He was then Parish Priest of Immaculate Conception, Hawthorn, until 1959. He enjoyed the pastoral engagement and installed a stained-glass window in the western transept of that church.

In 1960 he returned to Adelaide as Parish Priest of St Ignatius, Norwood, and as Rector of the College. Along with Fr John McAreavey SJ, then Prefect of Studies, he was instrumental in the 1963 process of identifying a suitable site for the new Senior College.

In 1965 Father Bourke played a significant role on the Appeal Committee, which readily raised £75,000 in a very short time. This enabled the College to secure the Athelstone property and to prepare plans for the first stage of building classrooms, administration and science blocks, and the Jesuit Residence, which was not originally envisaged as a part of the first stage.

Father Bourke was sent to Xavier College Melbourne in 1969 and taught English there, conveying something of his love of literature. He was a great lover of all sport, especially cricket and football. He is recalled here as a great storyteller, philosopher, parish priest, and schoolteacher, and as one who remained faithful through times of disappointments and achievements.

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Fr Frank Wallace SJ (1914-1993) The western soccer pitch at the Senior School is named after Fr Frank Wallace SJ.

Francis Wallace was born on 14 July 1914 in Melbourne.

He entered the Jesuit Novitiate at Watsonia in 1934, going on to complete all of his Jesuit studies in Australia. He was ordained in January 1948 in Sydney. After tertianship he went to Saint Ignatius’ College Riverview, where he was Prefect of Studies between 1950 and 1955. He was made Rector in 1955 and served in this role until 1961.

Following his time at Riverview, Father Wallace went to Xavier College Melbourne, where he served as Prefect of Studies and taught senior English and Religion. He then was appointed to Saint Ignatius’ College Norwood as Prefect of Studies. Father Wallace taught Latin, Physics, and Religion. At the founding of Saint Ignatius’ College Athelstone, he was appointed Rector. In his time as Rector he taught students Latin, English, Science, and Religion.

Father Wallace was considered a natural teacher, especially of English. He was determined and exceedingly hardworking in his commitment to ensure that the new Senior School was successfully established once the 1965 decision had been taken to relocate to the Athelstone site. By his example, Father Wallace set the tone and standard for his fellow Jesuits and the lay teachers. In the first years he handled all of the enrolment enquiries, managed the finances, typed his own correspondence as well as that for the College, taught, and coached the First XI cricket team. There being no Jesuit Residence yet completed, he slept in his office.

Other initiatives during his term included the annual magazine Ignatius, career nights, student retreats and camps, the creation of many academic and development clubs for the students, the regeneration of separate mothers and fathers associations, the Valete Dinner, and hosting the prestigious Achilles Cup at Athelstone. This was also a time of considerable curriculum innovation.

In 1974 Father Wallace was appointed Assistant to the Provincial. Then in 1976 he began a term as Tertian Director, before being appointed the director of the retreat house, Campion House, in Melbourne from 1982 until 1993, the year of his death. In his time at Campion House, he wrote two books on spirituality.

He is recalled here for his pivotal role in developing the Senior School at Athelstone. His focus and commitment made an outstanding contribution to the development of the Senior School on the Athelstone site. His gifts as a teacher, his competence as an administrator, and his wisdom as a guide and counsellor were greatly appreciated.

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Fr John McAreavey SJ (1915-1975) The board room on level two of the Saint Peter Faber SJ Building at the Senior School is named after Fr John McAreavey SJ.

John McAreavey was born in Bairsdale, Gippsland, Victoria, in 1915. He was educated by the Jesuits at St Patrick’s College East Melbourne, and then himself entered the Order on 10 March 1934. Incidentally, this was the same date that Francis Wallace entered the Jesuit Novitiate. He studied Classics and then Philosophy before being sent to serve as a teacher at Xavier College Melbourne between 1941 and 1944. He then completed theological studies and was ordained on 3 January 1948.

Father McAreavey taught for a year at St Patrick’s College before completing tertianship at Sevenhill in 1950. He was then sent to Burke Hall, one of the junior schools of Xavier College, before moving to the Senior School in 1953. Except for 1957, when he assisted the Novice Director and taught Philosophy to Jesuits in training, Father McAreavey served at Xavier College until 1961. He predominantly taught Latin and Greek.

During this time Father McAreavey formed what would become a longstanding and deep interest in Australian ants. He wrote articles, made a catalogue of Australian ants, and built a considerable collection of species, which he later gave to the CSIRO. He became a respected entomologist.

In 1962 Father McAreavey came to Saint Ignatius’ College Norwood. He served as Prefect of Studies until 1965.

He taught Latin and Greek, as well as Ancient History and Biology. He played a major role in the founding of Athelstone, moving to the new site of the Senior School at its opening in 1967. He worked hard in the garden, and his labours were recognised and much-appreciated as an example. He was a proponent of the move to coeducation in the senior years of the College, and appreciated the dynamic girls brought to the classroom.

He was a kind, humorous, humble, and unassuming person who enjoyed the vocation of teaching. He enjoyed the company of friends and looked forward to his daily teaching. For these things he is remembered here. He died suddenly, in his sleep, aged 60.

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Mr James Carey (1928-2004) The oval at the Junior School is named after Mr James Carey.

James Carey was born in 1928 at Wudinna in the Eyre Peninsula. He was a talented sportsman at Rostrevor College, in cricket, tennis, football and athletics.

Jim attended Adelaide Teachers’ College and was posted to the Murray Mallee. When Jim returned to Adelaide, Bernie Donnelly encouraged him to join Saint Ignatius College in 1962 as its fourth lay teacher. The lay staff were a small group as there were large numbers of Jesuits teaching in the school.

Jim married Carmel Morrisey, and of their five children, the three boys Denis, Andrew and Gavan attended Saint Ignatius’ College.

Jim taught upper primary grades for many years. His stern manner cloaked a caring and gentle disposition in dealing with his students. He was a well-regarded teacher.

He was admired for self-effacing dedication, friendliness, and goodness.

He coached the College primary cricket, football and athletics teams and introduced chess, which he also coached.

He was Deputy to Junior School Heads, Fr Stephen Bowler SJ (1975-1987) and Fr Paul Mullins SJ (1988-1989).

Jim was subsequently Master-in-Charge of the Junior School from 1990--92.

He retired after 30 years of exceptional service in 1992.

He had such an impact on the Junior School and, by extension, with the Senior School too. He helped shape the special family atmosphere that characterised the Norwood campus and Junior School.

His leadership at the Junior School was humble and diligent. His stern but caring manner helped many students develop in learning and character.

The standards he practised and expected of both staff and students were of the highest order.

The oval at the Saint Ignatius Junior School was named the James Carey Oval in 1993.

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Fr Charles Dennett SJ (1915-1993) The gymnasium at the Senior School is named after Fr Charles Dennett SJ.

Charles Dennett was born in Shipley, Yorkshire, on 4 July 1915, and migrated to Australia with his family at age four.

The family settled in Melbourne, and Dennett completed his schooling at St Patrick’s College East Melbourne. In 1931 he entered the Society of Jesus, aged just 15 and a half, his brother having joined several years prior.

He completed a Batchelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne, with majors in Pure and Applied Mathematics, and Latin. As part of his training, he returned to teach at St Patrick’s College and edited the College magazine.

After further studies and ordination in 1945, he was sent to St Louis School Perth as Prefect of Studies. He then returned to St Patrick’s College as Rector in 1949. His term as Rector was shortened after a car accident that affected him considerably.

Father Dennett returned to St Louis School in 1951 and was sent to Saint Ignatius’ College Norwood in 1954 and thence to Athelstone in 1967. In the early days he taught Mathematics and Religion (eight classes a day), contributed to the co-curricular program, and celebrated parish Masses.

He was renowned for the preservation of family details recorded in meticulous fashion. At the time of his death in 1993, he had recorded 4,861 entries in his ledger. Each year the College annual magazine Ignatius recorded marriages and deaths of former students, as well as the deaths of their parents. A daily ritual was to check the personal notices in the newspapers and record those relating to former students.

Father Dennett SJ was also a talented pianist. In the early days he played as an accompanist in College plays, but in the later years he preferred to play late at night without an audience. Following student dismissal he could be seen in his distinctive shorts removing rocks from the ovals and declaring ‘war’ on Scotch thistles, Cape Wood, Salvation Jane, and the like.

Those he taught recount his gentle but firm manner, his great skill as a teacher of Mathematics, and his obvious holiness. He rarely had to raise his voice in admonishment since his manner and aura seemed to command a genuine respect from even the most unsettled students. Father Dennett retired from teaching in 1988 and died in Adelaide in 1993. He is recalled here for his gentlemanliness, fidelity, devotion to duty, desire for excellence, and desire to serve.

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Mr Richard Flynn (1936-2012) The performance theatre within the Saint Peter Faber SJ Building at the Senior School is named after Mr Richard Flynn.

In 1960, Richard was one of three lay teachers, teaching alongside twelve Jesuit priests and scholastics at Saint Ignatius Norwood. He moved to the Senior School when it opened in 1967. He taught an extensive array of subjects to the senior students, including Singing, French, Science, Religion, and English.

In 1965, Richard directed Macbeth, the first of the Shakespeare dramas. Previously the College has performed some Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and other plays and musicals mainly for Junior School audiences.

However, under Richard’s directorship, the quality of drama productions became renowned. Every year thereafter, Richard directed a major drama production, which included 12 additional Shakespeare plays and 28 other major drama productions. As the years passed, the repertoire broadened and included a number of the ‘cutting-edge’ plays.

He was responsible for staging eight musicals as well as establishing the Court Theatre Company for former scholars with an interest in drama. Spanning the years 1975 to 1997, the Court Theatre Company staged 28 productions, all directed by Richard.

In 1976 he was appointed Deputy Headmaster, directing the curriculum and timetable, and for most years editing Ignatius. Innovations included the introduction of Music, Computing, Chinese, and Indonesian, and expanding the range of ‘histories’. Richard was also instrumental in the College’s administration moving into the ‘computing age’.

When Richard retired, the College had two campuses with nine Jesuits and 55 lay teachers. Richard showed commitment to the College, the Jesuits, his students, and the staff. He served the College devotedly over 36 years, particularly in difficult times. He dedicated his life to the welfare of this College and all it represents.

It is appropriate that the College acknowledge this performance space as the Richard Flynn Theatre.

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Sr Mary Dalton CSB (1939-1995) The staff study on lower level of the Campion Building at the Senior School is named after Sr Mary Dalton CSB.

Sister Mary Dalton, a Brigidine sister, was a much admired staff member from 1976 to 1982. At various times, she was Acting Deputy Head. As well as her roles at Saint Ignatius’ College, Adelaide, she was Principal of schools in Wangaratta, Killester and Kilbreda in Victoria.

She was born in Horsham Victoria in 1939. She was educated by the Brigidine Sisters. She was professed as a Brigidine sister in 1957. She taught at Geelong, Ararat, Wangarrata and Killester.

In the early 1970s, Sister Mary was on the staff of Kildare College, whose principal focus at the time was the teaching of commercial subjects; it did not offer subjects that led to entrance to tertiary education.

From 1970 onwards, increasing numbers of Kildare girls transferred to Saint Ignatius’ College because they wished to study in their final year of schooling sciences and mathematics. In 1976, Sister Mary transferred to Saint Ignatius’ College to support the Kildare girls as well as numbers of girls from other colleges.

Sister Mary taught English, Australian History and Religious Education. She set herself a driving pace, and her students thrived on her high expectations. She loved teaching dearly and she did it exceptionally well.

She was renowned for her commitment to co-curricular activities, which included coaching the debating teams, as well as alternating in the roles of stage manager and stage director in dramas and musicals. She worked backstage and cajoled public support for the productions. She also conducted a book exchange program.

Students were tremendously grateful for all that Sister Mary Dalton gave them. She was immensely well regarded by her colleagues and the Jesuits. She showed enormous kindness to those in trouble of any kind. She was committed to social justice of the most basic kind, to supporting the ‘most vulnerable’. Many students and their families were supported without anyone else ever knowing about it.

Her expertise was greatly missed when she left Saint Ignatius’ in 1983. She spent 1984 studying at Regis Theological College in Toronto prior to beginning her time as Principal of Kilbreda, Mentone from 1985 to 1995. In 1994, she was sadly diagnosed with cancer and consequently died 7 March 1995.

When the Campion Building opened in 2010, the staff room was named the Dalton Study in honour of a woman who made a unique contribution to the College and the lives of many who were blessed to come into contact with her.

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Mrs Catherine Atkinson (1912-2010) The eastern oval adjacent to the tennis courts at the Senior School is named after Mrs Catherine Atkinson.

Atkinson Oval is named after Mrs Catherine Atkinson.

The construction of the Senior School of Saint Ignatius’ College on its Athelstone campus was possible because of the generosity of two brothers, James Patrick Ryan and Robert Thomas Ryan, and their cousin, Mrs Catherine Atkinson, the granddaughter of Thomas and Catherine Addison.

Mrs Atkinson believed that to build the College on the family property would be a memorial to the early Australian Jesuit Fathers of Norwood, who were the spiritual advisers of the family and frequent visitors to their property. The Addison family has had a close relationship with the Jesuit priests that goes back to 1866, and has maintained close ties with the Jesuits ever since. The Austrian Jesuits were welcome and frequent visitors to the homestead. With the passing of the generations, the Addison property was divided among offspring.

By 1964 the acres, which today accommodate Saint Ignatius’ College, were owned by brothers James and Robert Ryan, and their cousin Janet Atkinson. The Ryan brothers owned three allotments, two of around ten acres each, and a third, of eight acres. Catherine owned 16 acres between the Ryans’ allotments.

Through a close friend of the Ryan family, Dean Travers, the allotments owned by the brothers were offered to the Jesuits, who saw the opportunity to establish a Senior School in Athelstone. Title for the land passed to the College on 7 May 1964.

Fr Thomas Bourke SJ also raised with Mrs Catherine Atkinson the possibility of Saint Ignatius’ College acquiring her share of the family property at Athelstone for constructing a senior campus. It was because of the depth of the relationship between Mrs Atkinson’s family, the Addison family, and the Jesuit Fathers, that the transfer of the Atkinson property was effected on 26 February 1965.

The Ryan’s sold to the Jesuits some 23 acres, all of Robert’s allotment, all of James’s allotment on the southern boundary, and around five acres from James’s property on what is now Manresa Court. Mrs Atkinson sold 14 acres from the two allotments in the centre of the property to the Jesuits. Catherine Atkinson retained two acres on the Maryvale Road boundary, against Fifth Creek.

The area of the property where the Jesuit residence is now situated was originally planted with vines. The remainder of the property was planted under vegetables and crops, and grazed. The property was watered by Fifth Creek, which ran through the property into a dam located on what is now the Bourke Oval. The family home was built on the southern boundary of the property, which is now the top end of the Baulderstone Oval.

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Mr Bert Baulderstone (1906-1972) The middle top oval at the Senior School is named after Mr Bert Baulderstone.

The Baulderstone Oval commemorates Bert Baulderstone, benefactor and stalwart of the drive to provide ovals for the College. He was born at Longwood in the Adelaide Hills and founded a building firm that became the largest company in South Australia. He served for a time as President of the Norwood Football Club.

At the inaugural dinner of the 1965 Saint Ignatius’ College Campaign Committee, a fundraising drive was launched to raise £75,000 for the purchase of the Athelstone site and to provide funds for the initial planning of the building plans for the new Senior School.

At the dinner, Mr Baulderstone promised to provide excavation machinery and the labour to prepare the sites of what came to be known as the Wallace, Baulderstone, and Atkinson Ovals. He also committed to build four change rooms, which today form the inner core of the existing change rooms. The change rooms were the first buildings constructed on the Athelstone site.

Mr Baulderstone had a wonderful work ethic and tirelessly and tenaciously drove the project, transforming the landscape involved moving many thousands of cubic metres of topsoil and rock. Previously the area had been a wilderness of small gullies, broken fences, Scotch thistles, Salvation Jane, and other rampant weeds.

The Bay of Biscay soil posed significant challenges as the black earth could expand and contract up to 30% between winter and summer. On the oval peripheries, more than 400 trees were planted, all native to the local hills environs.

Mr Baulderstone’s interest, energy and enthusiasm was supported by a willing Father’s Club, volunteer working bees of parents, friends of the College and students.

A new road was constructed around the boundary of the property, a new drainage system installed, earthworks commenced for six tennis courts and the area between the oval and Addison Avenue was levelled and graded.

In 1972, Fr Frank Wallace SJ Rector wrote, “my dear friend …… words are inadequate to express what this development will mean to the College”.

Mr Baulderstone died suddenly in March 1972, but progress was maintained under the direction of Messrs Charles and Murray Baulderstone. At the time of his death, the Wallace and Baulderstone Ovals were almost completely graded.

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THE HOLY FAMILY

The Holy Family The Holy Family consists of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph - the human family in which Jesus grew up and was nurtured.

The Holy Family is a popular theme in Christian art.

The main classroom building at the Junior School is named after the Holy Family. A sculpture of the Holy Family is displayed in the gathering area on the ground floor of that building.

The Gospels of Matthew and Luke record Jesus’ humble birth in Bethlehem, his early Jewish rites, the family’s flight to Egypt, and their trip to Jerusalem when Jesus was lost in the Temple. Joseph is thought to have passed on his trade of carpentry to Jesus.

The Holy Family Building was opened on 24 March 2002. This two-level building at the Junior School holds eighteen classrooms, offices and an activity area. The ground floor takes the form of a large undercroft and houses the sculpture of the Holy Family.

The sculpture, by Mrs Brooke Maurice of Robertson, N.S.W. Brooke Maurice has been a working sculptor since the early 1970s. Mostly working by commission, with works in the United Kingdom, U.S.A. and Australia, many of her pieces have been commissioned by schools.

It was made possible by the generous donation of Anthony Smerdon (class of ‘77), and takes pride of place in the centre of the ground floor of this building.

The Holy Family are recognized as a paradigm of family life, sharing life together simply and faithfully. This sculpture reminds our students of the families from which they come. They have an ease with the Jesus, Mary, and Joseph in the sculpture.

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THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS

The Holy Name of Jesus The name for our Chapel was chosen because it reflects the spirituality of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits, the Society of Jesus.

The College chapel on the Senior School grounds is named after the Holy Name of Jesus.

A devotion to the name of Jesus has been present in the Church for centuries. “God gave Jesus that name that is above every name” (Phil 2:8). The power of the name Jesus is encouraged in petitionary prayer “my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name” (John 16:23).

Christian prayers conclude with the words: ‘Through Our Lord, Jesus Christ’ or ‘Through Christ, Our Lord’.

Veneration of the name of Jesus reminds us that God came into the world as a human in a particular place and time. The letters IHS are an abbreviation of Jesus’ name in Greek. Jesuits describe themselves as companions of Jesus and used these letters as a special symbol of Jesus being the heart of all they were in community and all they did in ministry.

When Athelstone first opened as the Senior College in 1967, the present classroom on the first floor of the Bellarmine Building BE210 was used as a Chapel, and the Undercroft, the open space below the first floor was used for student Masses.

In 1973 a warm Chapel was build adjacent to the Kranewitter Hall. This was used until 2006 as a small intimate place for worship, marriages, baptisms and funerals. Efforts to build a large Chapel to host larger numbers were thwarted due to lack of funds.

In 2001, the College’s Jubilee Year, a major ‘Thanksgiving Chapel Appeal’ was launched. The Chapel of the Holy Name was to be situated in the gardens of Saint Ignatius’ College at Athelstone to thank God for the blessings of our students, families and staff - past present and yet to come.

Designed by principal architects Geoff Nairn and Lyndon Abbott, built by award winning Marshall and Brougham, the first earthworks for the Chapel commenced on 1 March 2005 and the official opening occurred on 26 March 2006. The Chapel has beautiful and meaningful Catholic symbols throughout.

The Chapel is a place of significance for the College community for the wider Ignatian family, to celebrate Chapel services and College Masses as well as Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals. It serves as a Chapel of Ease for the Athelstone Eucharistic Community.

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Saint Ignatius Loyola SJ

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Saint Cecilia 38

Saint Francis Xavier SJ

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Fr Alois (Aloysius) Kranewitter

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Saint Edmund Campion SJ

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Fr Josef Tappeiner SJ

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Saint Stanislaus Kostka SJ

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Fr Thomas Barden SJ

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Saint John Francis Regis SJ

10

Fr John Batchelor SJ

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Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez SJ

12

Fr Thomas Perrott SJ

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Saint Peter Faber SJ

14

Fr Thomas Bourke SJ

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Saint Robert Bellarmine SJ

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Fr Frank Wallace SJ

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Saint Aloysius Gonzaga SJ

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Fr John McAreavey SJ

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Saint Peter Claver SJ

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Mr James Carey 56

Fr Matteo Ricci SJ, SoG

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Fr Charles Dennett SJ

Fr Athanasius Kircher SJ

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Mr Richard Flynn 60

Fr Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ

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Sr Mary Dalton CSB

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Princess Juana (Mateo) SJ

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Mrs Catherine Atkinson

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Pedro Arrupe SJ, SoG

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Mr Bert Baulderstone

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Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop 32

The Holy Family 68

Caroline Chisholm 34

The Holy Name of Jesus

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