We thought that, similar to sharing images of our priests chalkboard in our refectory highlighting priests to pray for each week, we might share from time to time, not just a photo of our Mary Mother of Priests Garden, but a little about some of the priests names fixed there among the Stations of the Cross on our hilltop home.
So who is in the Garden? What was the first name plate drilled into the white panels in 2019?
Name Number One: Father Gerald M. C. Fitzgerald, s.P.
Naturally, our Founder had to be the first name on the white panels. He was inspired by the Holy Spirit to found two institutes dedicated to the sanctification of all priests. The first little red plate was his.
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- Knight Ron Henry assists Mother Marietta in placing the very first plaque for our Founder, Father Gerald.
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- Pergola at the center of the garden
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- Placing the names of priests in the Mary Mother of Priests tribute garden
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- May Mary Mother of Priests watch over the garden, but more importantly, the soul of each and every priest.
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- Father’s Ordination Photo 26 May 1921
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- Father Gerald as a Holy Cross Priest in 1940.
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- A 1944 photo of Father Gerald in his Army service dress.
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- Founder, Father Gerald s.P., with our first Handmaid, Sister Elizabeth of the Trinity.
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- Archbishop Byrne of Santa Fe with the Apostolic Delegation visiting Father Gerald, sP and Mother Dolorosa, HPB.
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- Father Gerald visiting his Handmaids not long before his death in 1969.