St. Stanislaus in Bay St. Louis suffered significant damage, but no Brothers, students, faculty were hurt. Water reached the second floor of the school where the international students were staying. The 30-foot wall of water washed away the first and second floors of the Brothers residence. The elderly and infirm Brothers and all of the students were evacuated by a bus chartered out of Mobile Tuesday morning to Mobile. The Brothers are at McGill and St. Catherine's Rectory in Mobile. The students are on their way to Baton Rouge where they will spend Tuesday night at Catholic High School while arrangements will be made for them to fly to their respective countries. Brother Xavier at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, August 30.
We sent this email because at 6601 Neshoba St., St. Martin the house and all it's belongings are totally gone... Wiped from the face of the earth... The house... Gone... The Shed... Gone... Everything Gone... Except one thing... In the middle of the yard is a $25 statue of Mother Mary still standing sted fast watching over everyone just as she always has... We thought this would be a great confidence booster for all those poor families...
I grew up in MS, and when my brothers were in high school, we played St. Stan's in basketball all the time. My brother got whacked in the face during a game one time there. My Mama started screaming because the ref kept bending down to pick up what she thought were his teeth. Turns out it was only one tooth, but it kept slipping out of the ref's fingers and he had to pick it up three times!
We always joked that the games with the other Catholic schools were much more wild than the ones with the public schools. I guess with the public schools, our kids were always on their best behavior, but let it all go when they played each other.
I fell on this site via a search…I am from PA.
Where have the students from the destroyed high school gone to live?
What are the needs?
I belong to a very small catholic church located in Muse, (Cecil Township)PA, “Holy Rosary” We had a collection to go to hurricane displaced family’s (via Catholic charities). And if we could do anything else, please
contact us.
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