Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1911-09-02
Apostolic Delegate FalcOniO and
Bishop O'DOnaghue VIII
Attend.
RemOdeled Under the Diree-
tion of Rev. Brother
Plus.
SENT OUT MANY ABLE PRIESTS

Historic st. Joseph College, at
Bardstown, once the leading educa-
tional institution of the West is to
be reopened next month, after hav-
ing been closed for twenty-five
years. A celebration in which the
Most Rev. Diomede Falconio, Apos-
tolic Delegate, of Washington, will
participate, will mark the opening
exercises. The school will be under
the direction of the Xaverian Broth
erhood, which purchased the prop
erty last March from the Diocese of
Louisville. Brother Sulpicius, who
has been engaged in educational
work in Massachusetts, will be Di-
rector of the college.
The old buildings of the college
have been thoroughly overhauled,
equipped with water, steam heat,
electric lights, modern lavatories
and fire-fighting apparatus and ex-
tensive additions have been made,
all under the direction of Rev.
Brother Plus, of st. Lawrence Insti-
tute, this city. The older of the
two structures, known as the admin
lstration building, was erected in
1919 and was used first as a SEM
mary and later as college. The
other building, known from its white
stucco covering as the White
House." was constructed in 1S4S. 1t
IS to be rechristened ''Flaget Hall,
in memory of Bishop Flaget. Both
of the structures are of brick and
are three stories high, not including
ohf mil let ~
building is to contain the offices and
parlors of the institution on the
main floor, and dormitories above.
Flaget Hall will have class rooms
on the first and top floors with a
study hall and library on the middle
floor. The grounds of the college
forty acres, seven OF which
will be set aside for athletic sports.
st. Joseph College will open it's
doors Monday, September IL, when
the students will register. The fol-
owing morning Apostolic Delegate
Falconio will arrive in Louisville,
escorted by a delegation of Bards-
town Knights of Columbus, who will
meet him en- route, and the men,
bers of the party will leave imme-
diatey on a special train for Bards-
town. From the station there they
will proceed in automobiles, headed
by a band, to st. Joseph's church,
where high mass will be said. There
will be luncheon at 1 O'Clock and I
afterward the Trappist Monastery, !
81 ighteen miles south of Bardstown,
Nazareth Academy, the Loretto
Academy at Loretto and st. Cath
erine's Academy at Springfield will 1
be visited in automobiles.
Tuesday night a celebration will /
be held on the lawn in front of the
college buildings, at which addresses
will be made by number of prom
nent speakers, including the Apos-
5olic Delegate; the Right Rev. Denis
Bishop of Louisville; /
he Rev. Father O'Connell, of Bards-
own; the Rev. Father Ratio, of
Louisville; Congressman Ben john
ION, of Bardstown, and the Rev.
Brother Isidore, Provincial of Balti-
more. After the speaking the !
knights of Columbus will
give a banquet in the dining rooms
" the college. The special train
With most of the visitors will return
o Louisville after the banquet, but
he Apostolic Delegate will remain
n Bardstown until the following
lay, when he will bless the college
rhe Xaverian Brotherhood has ex-
ended an invitation to the public to
20 to Bardstown on the special train
md to attend the exercises.
Bishop O'Donaghue attended st.
Joseph College, and forty priests
low in the diocese of Louisville re-
eived their education there. Since
he college was closed in 1889 the
have remained unoccupied
Except for a few years when they
we're used by the st. Thomas Orphan
Asylum after the orphanage of that
four miles from Bards-
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