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| | Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 9:47 pm: |    |
Thanks Taj. I must've had Brendan's on my brain when I was thinking about GA. I made the appropriate correction.
Gibran - You are very welcome. I will try to post some shots of the other schools you mentioned if interested.
I was unaware of GA having a high school either, and I can't find anyone who went there, but I received a list from the diocese last spring that stated a Guardian Angels High School located in Detroit closed in June, 1976. I made the assumption that it was this parish.
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Gibran
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Post Number: 27
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 9:55 pm: | |
There was a suburban GA and I believe in Warren...they may have had a high school...I graduated 8th grade in 1973. I have been away from home for along time and I often wonder when I hear about a church closing how many people at one time made the faith strong in those parishes...just the communities, poles, Italians, Germans and others were so much a part of the history of Detroit and our country. I also wonder how the social fabric was woven when these were immigrant communities...it would be interesting to view their history. |
Maxcarey
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| | Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 5:48 am: | |
There is a Guardian Angels grade school in Clawson, perhaps the diocese made an error and they had a HS back in the 1970s? |
Swiburn
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| | Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 9:46 am: | |
No, there was no Guardian Angels High School in Clawson, but thanks once again for all the pictures. As for the Servite High School-the Servites were the priests who ran the school until it closed in l987 or thereabouts. I dont know if it was ever officially called "St. John Berchmans High School."
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Ron_saad
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Post Number: 72
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 3:42 pm: | |
Yes St. Maron's and St. Sharbel's is a Maronite Catholic Church. They have the Same Pope. Part of or all of the Mass is said in Arabic. My Brother is a Chor Bishop for the Maronite Catholic Church and they also cannot be married. |
Kathleen
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| | Posted on Saturday, March 03, 2007 - 10:54 pm: | |
Since there was some talk of St. Ignatius, I wanted to be sure that any St. Ignatius grads are aware of this reunion being held on March 10.
Although the newspaper listing says Detroit St. Ignatius: Classes of 1969-72, I understand that is open to all classes.
For more information, email: ignatiusreunion@juno.com. |
Ebon
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| | Posted on Sunday, March 04, 2007 - 10:05 am: | |
My 3 brothers and I attended St. Anthony's in the late 40's and experienced no predatory priests nor sadistic SSND nuns. High expectations and discipline were the name of the game. Nothing wrong with that!! |
Maxcarey
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| | Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 4:32 pm: | |
Please correct me, St. Anthony's became East Catholic High School in the late 1960s, right? |
Dhugger
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| | Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 6:24 pm: | |
There is a Catholic Church called "Our Lady of Sorrows" located on Power road in Farmington Michigan. Did this city church possibly move in the 60's? During the 1960's Farmington was a bleeding edge suburb. |
Mikem
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| | Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 7:21 pm: | |
Is that the same Our Lady of Sorrows that was burned out by the Briggs fire on Meldrum Avenue?
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Taj920
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| | Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 9:01 pm: | |
The Farmington parish and Detroit parish named Sorrows are separate. The Detroit parish lasted until around 2000, when it merged with Annunciation.
As for East Catholic, I think it was initially located at another closed high school (St. Catherine's maybe), and then moved to St. Anthony when that school closed. |
Maxcarey
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| | Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 10:43 pm: | |
MikeM
Any more pictures of that fire that you are able to share?
Taj - You are spot on, Sorrows closed in 2000. I recently drove around the Meldrum/Mt. Elliot area and checked on Sorrows. It appears that a building with a 1966 cornerstone is still there, it appeared that a funeral was taking place when I went by. Couldn't figure out if that was the new church or what denomination is using it now. |
Mikem
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| | Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 10:52 pm: | |
Max: Virtual Motor City |
Swiburn
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| | Posted on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 - 9:22 am: | |
East Catholic was a combination of the closed Sts. Elizabeth, Rose, Catherine, all the lower east side Catholic high schools that closed around l970.
yes, Guardian Angels H.S. in Detroit closed in l976. The original elementary there closed around l986.
Also, what happened to the "Freedom Mural" that decorated the front of St. Bernard Church? It was painted in l969. |
Larryinflorida
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Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 2:50 pm: | |
A faculty photo from my St. Bart's Yearbook
Strict, those nuns! |
Bongman
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| | Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 2:58 pm: | |
My Mom was a 1951 graduate of St. Catherine's. She attended her 50th reunion in 2001. It was combined with several classes. I remember my Mom being quite surprised at how many people attended.
Heh...you don't run into too many people named Florence these days. |
Maxcarey
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| | Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 7:08 pm: | |
Third one from the left was my fourth grade teacher. |
Ladyinabag
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| | Posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 7:24 pm: | |
They were reminding you to let the hems down on your skirts. |
Maxcarey
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| | Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 1:31 pm: | |
Where was St. Catherine's located? |
Lafayette
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| | Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 3:30 pm: | |
St. Charles was built in the late 1800's to pick up the overflowing Belgian population at the time that the Cadieux area wasn't able to handle anymore. The E. Grand Blvd/Kercheval area a hundred years ago had a huge Belgian population, relative to Detroit's size that is. |
Ladyinabag
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| | Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 4:03 pm: | |
Ccheski-
You do know that the St. Louis The King Church standing now facing 7 Mile was not the original church. The building around the corner right behind the present church and facing St. Louis was the original church. I spent many a day standing in line for confession and having to go to the bathroom from fear in that building. May processions....I used to stage my own at home. |
Taj920
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| | Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 10:11 pm: | |
St. Catherines is at Seminole and Sylvester, east of Van Dyke and south of Forest. |
Maxcarey
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| | Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 10:36 pm: | |
An update on the Phillip Neri site. The church is still indeed there, the schools are gone.
Thanks Taj for the update on St. Catherines. |
Swiburn
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| | Posted on Friday, March 09, 2007 - 8:33 am: | |
Maxcarey,
Thanks for the information, and please post more pictures, especially of the closed St. Monica and any other west side churches. The west side seems to have fared better in the closure department-perhaps because it didn't have as many factories and the surrounding houses that were abandoned when the jobs left? |
Maxcarey
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| | Posted on Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 3:54 pm: | |
Don't have as many homemade pictures of the westside, but I am working on those. For now, here is a picture from St. Monica's (which from my understanding the whole complex is still standing) from Roman's book.
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Maxcarey
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| | Posted on Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 3:57 pm: | |
Lafayette -
Thanks for posting and adding to this discussion. You mentioned the overflow that led to the creation of St. Charles Parish. What parish was filled in that led to St. Charles? Annunciation? St. Edwards? |
Swiburn
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| | Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 12:36 pm: | |
Maxcarey, That would be Our Lady of Sorrows overflow that led to the creation of St. Charles. The Flemish didn't want to trudge so far through the snow, so they petitioned the bishop for a closer by church |
Ccheski
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| | Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 1:16 pm: | |
Hello, Larryinflorida --
Sorry I missed your post way back at the end of February.
No, I didn't know an April Wilk. Maybe we lived there at different times. My parents first moved to Dwyer and Lantz in 1949 when almost all the houses were brand new. I was born in 1956 and we sold the house in 1981 when my mother could no longer care for it by herself. |
Ccheski
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| | Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 1:23 pm: | |
Ladyinabag --
Yes, I know about the current St. Louis the King being the third church. My parents were married in the one in the school basement in 1948, and I vaguely recall attending Mass in the second church that became the activities building when the current church was built. I started first grade at St. Louis School in 1961.
I remember the May Processions in the parking lot that faces 7 Mile. It was always freezing cold and we had to wear little gauzy pink dresses and lightweight sweaters. Some 8th grade girl always got to climb the ladder and crown the statue. By the time I got to 8th grade, I think the procession was a thing of the past. |
Hammergal
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| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 11:44 pm: | |
Our Lady of Sorrows- The complete fire story, all photos ( 8 x 10 glossys)r, the painting done of the fire, and all kinds of church history is viewable at the Leon Buyse Memorial library. 13 mile in the american house basement. Also chimes for 1951 thru 1954. Plus church history on almost every church mentioned in this thread. Also missionery data back to 1774. |
My33
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| | Posted on Monday, December 03, 2007 - 9:08 pm: | |
In regards to the location of St Edwards Church & School. It was located at Charlevoix & Craine, I attended that school from 1939 to 1943, made my first communion there. The nuns were nasty then also, maybe even more so. Back then if you caused a disturbance in the class, the nun would either whack you with the blackboard pointer or pull your hair upward at the back of you neck, or just slap you. It was a just a matter of how they felt at the time. When we moved to Fairmount & Alcoy in the northeast part of Detroit in 1943, I went to my first public shool. It was Gabriel Richard and I felt like I got let out of jail. |
Pats
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| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 10:59 pm: | |
Ohmygosh Larryinflorida, that photo takes me back - too far. St Brendan's - Sister Ann Catherine, Sister Mary Carmen, Miss Joyce (who always dressed in plain black and white as if she were in the convent),Mr. Potvin, Mr. Chopp (Ugh) and Mr. Gunst- who was in his first year of teaching when I was there and when I went back years later I found out he had become principal of what was left of the school.
I always figured the discomfort those stiff habits caused the nuns might have been part of the reason they were so strict with little kids.
They did relent a bit when the World Series was on though ;-) |
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