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Benedictine Military School Occupies New Facilities
On Monday morning, Septem
ber 23rd the Cadets of Bene
dictine Military School assem
bled for their first day of class
es at their new school located
on Seawright Drive off of Inter
mediate Road.
The expansion program which
cost in excess of one million
dollars is not yet completed.
The Chapel, Gymnasium and
Monastery are still in the con
struction stage with comple
tion of all units scheduled be
fore the first of the year.
Benedictine Military School,
formerly called Benedictine
College, was officially opened
on September 29, 1902 by the
Very Reverend Bernard Haas,
O.S.B. The school was then
located on the southside of 32nd
Street, between Lincoln and
Habersham. Twenty-one pupils
were enrolled in the first class.
The faculty consisted of Fa
ther Bernard, instructor in the
academic subjects and Colonel
Jordan F. Brooks, commandant
of the Military Department
which had been introduced at the
same time.
On June 16, 1905, the late
Bishop Benjamin J. Keiley of
Savannah officiated at the dedi
cation of the building located
on the southwest corner of 34th
and Bull streets, which served
until last week.
The first student to be regis
tered at Benedictine was Thom
as A. Furlong.; The roster of
the first class is as follows:
John J. Berry, Holbrooke E.
Bolan, Frank M. Brooks, Chris
R. Conner, Frank R. Cullum,
William D. Dupont, Thomas
Furlong, J. Spears Futch, John
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Continuously since 1871 the
Benedictines have labored in the
State of Georgia. For the pur
pose of erecting a Monastery
at the Isle of Hope, French
Benedictines came from Europe
under the leadership of Father
Grabriel Bergier, O.S.B. They
built a chapel on the Isle of
Hope which to this day serves
the congregation there. This
mission is the only remaining
indication of the early Benedic
tines on the Isle of Hope. Their
ambitions were frustrated by
the epidemic of yellow fever
which claimed Father Gabriel
and most of his Associates.
But this disaster did not dis
courage the sons of St. Bene
dict. In response to a plea from
the late Bishop Gross, Abbot
Boniface Wimmer, Abbot of St.
Vincent’s Abbey in Pennsylvan
ia sent Father Oswald Moss-
muller, O.S.B., and Father Mel
chior Reichart, O.S.B., who es
tablished St. Benedict’s parish
in Savannah and endeavored to
erect a Monastery on Skidaway
Island.
In 1885, when the Bene
dictines from St. Vincent's
founded Belmont Abbey in Bel
mont, N. C., the members of
the Order located in Georgia
affiliated with Belmont Abbey
and carried on their Apostolic
work under the supervision of
this newly-founded Southern
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Cadets assemble in quadrangle of new school on opening day of school.
Abbey with the Right Rev. Leo
Haid, O.S.B., D.D. as Abbot.
In 1961 the Benedictines an
nounced plans and launched a
fund drive for the new Benedic
tine Military School which re
ceived its first students last
week.
Also in 1961 Savannah’s
Benedictine community became
an independent conventual pri
ory. The Sacred Heart Priory
belongs to the American Cassi-
ness Congregation of Benedic
tines. This move enables the
monks to concentrate on their
work for the Diocese of Savan
nah.
RUINS OF OLD MONASTERY—Picture from the Thomas Gamble Collection shows the
old monastery on Skidaway Island. In addition to establishing the monastery, the Bene
dictine priests operated an industrial school for negroes there.
The Benedictines
Reprinted from PAX—Bene
dictine Review.
Inquiry into the history of the
Benedictines takes the investi
gator back nearly fourteen hun
dred years to that obscure and
troubled period, (between the
death of the Emperor Theo
dosius I, A. D. 395, and the
coronation of the Emperor
Charlemagne, in the year 800),
which witnessed the decline of
the ancient Roman culture and
the first uncouth beginnings of
Medieval Christendom. St.
Benedict, an Italian, and a pro
duct of the expiring Roman
world, was a contemporary of
the Emperor Justinian I, the
Great, the formulator of a com
pendium of laws which bears
his name, and the builder of
Sancta Sophia. Justinian mount
ed the imperial throne, in Con
stantinople, in the year 527.
Fifty-one years before, in 476,
the city of Rome had fallen into
the hands of the barbarian chief
tain, Odoacer, and the sover
eignty of the Empire which,
since the death of Theodosius
I, had been shared by Rome
and Constantinople, now de
volved solely upon the latter.
Justinian became Emperor in
527, and in 529, two years later,
Benedict of Nursia, emerging
from his first retreat at Subia-
co, established a little family
of monks upon Monte Cassino,
a mountain overlooking the road
that leads from Rome to Na-
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pies. From this eminence, the
spirit of Benedictine monasti-
cism and its civilizing influ
ence was destined to go forth to
the frontiers of a Europe, in
Benedict’s day, as yet unborn,
and beyond those frontiers, in
due time, to lands of which his
world did not so much as dream.
St. Benedict did not invent mon-
asticism. The impulse to re
nounce the ordinary ties of
Christian family life and seek
another form of consecration to
the service of God is found in
the primitive Church. At first
this impulse sought expression
in the life of the solitary who
lived alone in a cave, or a hut,
in the wilderness. Gradually
this severe individualism gave
place to the ideal of live in
a monastic community under a
more or less rigid rule. St.
Benedict took monasticism very
much as he found it, adapting
it to the spirit and tempera
ment of the West only where this
adaptation seemed necessary.
It is a tribute to his genius
that the "Holy Rule," which he
wrote for the guidance of his
little community at Monte Cas
sino, came in time to supercede
practically all of the older mon
astic codes throughout the West.
St. Benedict’s contribution to
monasticism is to be found in
the emphasis he lays upon cer
tain elements already implicit
in the institution. In the Rule,
which he left as a legacy to
his disciples, special promi
nence is given to the communal
character of conventual life.
The superior is to be an "ab
bot,” that is to say, a father,
and those subject to him are to
be regarded as so many spiri
tual sons. Abbot and community
are to dwell together as one
Christian family, praising God
in common in the monastery
church, at the appointed hours,
gathering as one around the
conventual board, sharing alike
the burdens and the good things
of their state of life.
St. Benedict did not prescribe
any particular kind of labor for
his monks. His first disciples
probably occupied themselves
mainly with agriculture. Very
soon, however, a task came
ready to hand, in the perfor
mance of which the monks were
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