No, I was not born. It was a great day for the Catholic Church in Utah. The first Catholic School opened for classes on September 6, 1875. St. Mary's Academy was begun by two Sisters of the Holy Cross. Located where the Salt Palace Convention Center currently stands, this school for girls eventually moved to become St. Mary's of the Wasatch in 1926. Eventually this school was merged with our current Judge Memorial High School.It is amazing that two sisters arrived in June of 1875, and worked over the summer with no school building, no desks, no books, and a very small Catholic population, but they were able to begin classes by this date after only a few months.
Thousands of Utah Catholics have benefited from the legacy of this first school (a boys school opened on the same site the following year.) Photos feature Mother Augusta, one of the first two sisters to arrive in 1875, and the building which served as St. Mary's until 1926.Let's remember to say thank you to God for all who have gone before us, working on behalf of the Church in Utah, and let's be thoughtful about how we can preserve and maintain that legacy, so that these places of education and formation remain open for service to the generations to come.
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