St. Benedict Catholic School, 100 years strong
Posted By Jessica Vaughn ELBERTA - The date of Sept. 6, 1921 was an important one in Elberta’s history. Father Thomas Stemmier, O.S.B., pastor of St. Bartholomew Parish and Benedictine monk from St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, watched as the doors opened to St. Benedict Catholic School. He founded the school and invited three Benedictine Sisters from the Sacred Heart Convent to serve as its first educators. They were Sister Assumpta Tomerlin, Sister Johanna Daly and Mother Ottilla, and they taught from 1921 to 1924. The rest, as they say, is history. “It’s interesting because where we a...
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