St. Alphonsus Church Created a Legacy of Redemptorist Vocations
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September 23, 2022
The Redemptorists quickly established a parochial school to serve the neighborhood children. St. Alphonsus School opened on September 2, 1889 with four Dominicans in charge: Sisters Cyprian, Sabina, Ignatius and Alocoque. The first roll call listed 180 children.
Many of the students were called to religious life through the ensuing years. Quite a few young girls joined the Dominicans, while others were drawn to vocations with different orders of religious women. Sr. Mary Margaret Miller, who grew up on Page Street with four brothers who became Redemptorist priests, became a Redemptoristine and lived to the age of 102. That celebrated street also produced two vocations from the Grile family and five vocations from the Patin family.
