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CD O Hi* C^The Sou ☆ ^ 00 ^ Diocese of, Savannah ☆ lit? in (jTOSS 1850 Diocese of Savannah Contents Headline Hopscotch 2 News 3 Commentary 4-5 Around the Diocese 6 Mount de Sales 7 Faith Alive! 8-9 Notices 10-11 Last But Not Least 12 Vol. 80, No. 14 Thursday, April 6, 2000 $.50 PER ISSUE Supplement: Annual Accountability Report Benedictine Memorial Cross dedicated March 28 Left: The restored cross awaits its blessing as cadets stand at attention. Right: Bishop J. Kevin Boland and concelebrating priests stand in front of the cross. Photos courtesy of Benedictine Military School. Savannah n March 28, the feast of Saint Benedict, the founder of Western monasticism, Bishop J. Kevin Boland blessed a restored memorial cross at Benedictine Military School, Savannah. The bless ing took place on the plaza in front of the school, following a Mass concelebrated by the bishop and Benedictine and diocesan priests in the school cafetorium. At the bishop’s suggestion, the entire student body marched in absolute silence from the cafetorium to the plaza for the blessing. The cross once crowned one of the steeples of Sacred Heart Church, Savannah. The “new” Sacred Heart Church, in Savannah, was dedicated in 1905 to replace the original parish church built in 1880. The Benedictine community built the new Sacred Heart Church as a replica of their abbey church in Belmont, North Carolina. Towering over the Bull Street church, in mid town Savannah, were two steeples, holding two decorated iron crosses. Until 1991, these crosses marked the Church that served more than three generations of Savannah Catholic families and the young men who attended the Benedictine Military School adjacent to the church. When the school’s new campus was built on the southside in the 1960s, the old school then became Sacred Heart Interparochial School. The refurbishing of that building for use by Notre Dame Academy was recently announced (see The Southern Cross, 3/23). When it became necessary to remove both cross es in 1991 for structural repair of the steeples, it was decided at that time to replace the iron crosses with two smaller crosses which would not put unnecessary structural pressure on the existing church steeples. With the decision not to return to two large iron crosses atop the historic church, the people of Sacred Heart Parish pondered whether or not to keep the crosses and, if they were to be kept, where they should go. After much discussion, it was decided to give one cross to the Benedictine community and the faculty and students of Benedictine Military School as a reminder of the historic traditions that linked the new school campus, with the old “B.C.” and Sacred Heart Church on Bull Street. The other cross would be used to create a Benedictine Memorial on the grounds of Sacred Heart Church to commemorate the Benedictine community of priests, who served Sacred Heart Church from 1880-1963. The Benedictine Memorial Cross is erected between the school and the monastery, where the Benedictine monks and priests live. It is a constant reminder of those who serve today and those who have served in the past in this Benedictine tradi tion. The Sixth Station Veronica's Veil, imprinted with the face of Jesus on his way to Calvary, is por trayed in a new ly restored mural by Christopher P. Murphy in the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, Savannah