10/12/2019
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St Patrick's College - c1910
Founded by Archbishop Francis Redwood SM
The Gothic-style building was opened 1 June 1885 with 9 day boys & 12 boarders.
The College represents one of the earliest educational establishments of the Society of Mary (Marists) the religious congregation whose members accompanied Bishop Jean Baptiste Pompallier to NZ in 1838 and who played a prominent role in the establishment of the Catholic church here. The first members of staff, Irish Marists who came principally from the Marist College at Dundalk, established a number of Marist colleges such as St Bede's College in Christchurch and St John's College in Hastings.
Plans in 1931 envisaged the College moving to a more suitable site at Silverstream, but a high demand for education eventually led to a split: the original establishment continued and the boarding section moved to become St Patrick's College, Silverstream, thus allowing room for the expansion of day-numbers on the Cambridge Terrace site.
From that time the city college has borne the nickname "St Pat's Town". The two separate Colleges bearing the same name have developed a shared history and a healthy rivalry; they also share the St Patrick's College Old Boy's Association. In 1979, St Patrick's College shifted from its Cambridge Terrace site to a new facility near Kilbirnie Green in Evans Bay.
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