DENVER CATHOLIC Classrooms, Library Space, a Principal’S Office, Nurse’S Progress Made on Two New Parishes Office, Teachers’ Lounge, and Restrooms
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U U f St. Rose of Lima’s to Build Convent, Classrooms Work Starts Soon; to Open School in Fall of 1955 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Contents Copyright by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1953— Permission to Reproduce, Except on Plaus are being drawn for the erection of a second story An option has been taken by Father Wogan on two houses Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue containing four classrooms above the building being used for on four lots on the corner of S. Navajo Street and W. Dakota church services by St. Rose of Lima’s Parish, Denver. A sis Avenue, on the block with the present church, hall, and rectory. ters’ convent will also be erected, according to the Rev. Barry The houses will be torn down and the site used for the new Wogan, pastor. convent. The school project will Contain, in addition to the DENVER CATHOLIC classrooms, library space, a principal’s office, nurse’s Progress Made on Two New Parishes office, teachers’ lounge, and restrooms. It is planned that the school and convent will be fin ished for the opening of classes in September of 1955. REGISTER From the Seminary Campaign Fund, Archbishop Urban J. Vehr has returned to the parish $14,000 for VOL. XLIX. No. 21. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1954 DENVER, COLORADO purchase of the convent site and to help toward construc- tion. This represents a return of funds donated in the campaign by St. Rose of Lima parishioners. The convent will be built large enough for future expansion of Fabulous and Varied Career the school and of the teaching staff. With two stories and base ment, it will contain accommoda tions for 10 nuns. Of Msgr. Bosetti Is Recalled The first floor of the convent will contain offices, parlor, liv Bv J ack H ehkr j - + + ing room, kitchen, housekeeper's + The condition of tne Rt. Rev. Monsignor Joseph J. quarters, community room, a Bosetti, 'V.G., 68, who suffered a stroke Saturday morn chapel that will accommodate 20, ing, Jan. 2, wap reported grave at Regixter press time and a sacristy. The second floor Wednesday night. First stricken two and one-half years will have rooms for 10 nuns, an ago. Monsignor Bosetti had been in failing health since infirmary, and other facilities. then. The convent will be constructed .4s a Churchman, musician, of brick to match the school build mountaineer, and mentor of ing. It will be adjacent to the youth. Monsignor Bosetti has ex Appeal Jan. 17 ercised his influence over Colo school and across the alley from rado’s faith and culture for 42 the site of the future church. Be years. His interests have been as Catholic as his faith. In Archdiocese on building projects of two new Seminary while work is being done on the $iou,- tween the convent and the school Progress parishes in Denver is shown in the 000 parish plant. will be the school playground. He was a man of God fir.st, founder of the Assumption Par- photo above. Completion for the Cure d’.Ars Church (be The convent will have an en The new Most Precious Blood Church (top), low) at E. 32nd Avenue and Dahlia Street, is seen i.sh, Welby: Chancellor of the To Aid Charities at S. Colorado Boulevard and Iliff, is rising for June. Good weather is helping along con closed garden court to give the Denver Archdiocese under two rapidly, and the rectory is near completion. Con struction of the church, according to Father nuns privacy. Arrangements have Ordinaries, Vicar General for 20 To supply for the finan struction was begun on the three-building plant John Haley, pastor. The picture above shows the been made with a community of years, a Domestic Prelate for 26 cial as.sistance form erly years, and a priest for 45 years. — church, hall, and rectory— in June, 1953, and framework for what will be a combination school- nuns to provide teachers. given to Catholic Charities completion is seen for early in this year. The church plant that will accommodate 688 worship His contributions to the cul by the opera directed annu church will accommodate 400 persons. It will ers, and classrooms for pupils. It is a $304,- The parish has also acquired tural life of Denver and Colo eventually be converted into a school. Father John 763 construction job.—(Register photos by War three lots to the west of the pres rado are acknowledged to be in ally by the Rt. Rev. Joseph Donohoe, C.M., pastor, is residing at St. Thomas’ ner) ent church for future use. The calculable. In 1912, a year after Bosetti, a collection will be taken -----------1 -I- 4 - 4 - houses on this property are being his arrival from his native Italy, in the churches of the Archdio Come From Wide Range of Towns he was given charge of the Den cese of Denver on Sunday, rented out. This makes 21 lots on ver Cathedral choir, and de Jan. 17. the block that are held for parish veloped that organization into a The letter from Archbishop 70 Reply to Ads and Ask Cornerstone Rite use nationally known group. Urban J. Vehr announcing the It is expected that the plans First Opera in 1915 collection is as follows: will be ready for bids by March ARCHDIOCESE As early as 1915 Monsignor OF DENVER For instructions by MailiSunday, Jan. 17, and that work will begin by late Bosetti was directing opera pro ductions in Denver. In that year Chancery Office April or early May. John Connell 1536 Logan Street Seventy requests for Catholic instructions by mail he staged Cavalleria Rusticana, is the architect with makeshift scenery and a Denver 5, Colorado resulted in three days from the advertising campaign run At Cure d'Ars The project is expected to cost budget of $800. Since that time Jan. 3, 1954 in the Denver Post, the Rocky Mountain News, and the in the neighborhood of $200,000, his name has become synony The cornerstone rite for Reverend Dear Father and Denver Catholic Register. although it is hoped that a drop mous with grand opera in the Beloved People: the new Cure d’Ar.s Church Mile High City. The report on the ads, which, over the past week end, in construction costs may result During the many years past, In the years between 1915 and invited inquirers to investigate at E. 32nd Avenue and Dah our Catholic Charities have re in some saving 1933 Monsignor turned his Catholicism, was made by Father parish. The first lesson of the lia Street, Denver, will be lied on an annual opera to sup The school, according to pres musical talent to the presenta Joseph O’Malley of St. Philo- course will be mailed to them in plement appropriations from the held Sunday, Jan. 17. tion of oratories and operettas. mena’s Parish, Denver. Father two or three weeks. Father O’ ent plans, will open with four Community Chest in order to The Rt. Rev, Monsignor Harold In these fields his work included O’Malley started the advertising Malley announced. grades, A class will be added each meet necessary current opera V. Campbell, pastor of Blessed the American premiere of program with the aid o f Father tions. This event has not been The ads carried by the Denver Sacrament Parish, will preside at year. Expansion will be taken care Franco Vittadini’s Missa Ju- Robert Nevans of St. Francis possible recently; hence, I appeal papers included a list of all the the cornerstone laying at 2 p.m. of first by adapting the old church bilaris. de Sales’ Parish. parishes that conduct weekly con to you for your kind assistance. Ground was broken for the Monsignor Bosetti’s first ap Postmarks on the requests sent building, now used for a parish 'Through their official oper vert classes, with their addresses, new church in August. 1953, and pearance in his capacity as a to St. Philomena’s Rectory, 2820 phone numbers, and the places hall, for one or two more class ations, the Catholic Charities work has progressed rapidly Rt. Rev. Monsignor Joseph J. Bosetti, V.G. musical director took place in E. 14th Avenue, represented, be and times of the instructions. The rooms. The convent will likewise represent all of us collectively in since that time. The combination Denver in 1915. He presented sides Denver: Silverton, Greeley, mailing address for correspond child placement, child care, fos church-school building should be contain a large basement rooffi Don Lorenzo Perosi’s The Pas Loveland, Boulder, Longmont, ent inquirers is 2820 E. 14th Ave ter home provisions, representa completed in June, according to that will accommodate another sion of Christ, the first presen tion before the courts, giving F t Morgan, Buena Vista, Du nue, Denver. Cornerstone Rites Held Father John N. Haley, pastor, tation of this work in the West. of aid to needy families, and, in rango, and Brighton, as well as grade. The instruction-class advertis and the dedication should take From 1933 to 1951, Monsignor general, saving the faith for Laramie, Wyo., and Seattle, It is likely that these facilities ing is supplementary to a pro place at the end of that month. Bosetti staged an opera an many hundreds of our neglected Wash. gram instituted by the Supreme Cure d’Ars Parish was estab will be used before adding an For Convent in F t Collins nually. The 1935 production. or orphaned children and adults. One From Seattle Council of the Knights of Co lished in July, 1952, by Arch other wing to the school.