Holy Cross School (New Orleans)
Holy Cross School is a high school and middle school founded in 1849 by the Congregation of Holy Cross in New Orleans, Louisiana. The main founder of Holy Cross is Blessed Father Basil Moreau, who was just recently beatified. Holy Cross High was originally named St. Isadore's College. The school's founding principle is the school code, "The Holy Cross Man."
Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, Holy Cross School remains a great New Orleans middle/high (grades 5-12) school for boys that has created an educational environment that helps boys become men, through a curriculum and staffing that creates "heart, mind, body and soul" enrichment, making men who lead lives that create personal and social action for the betterment of others.
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“America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“In ancient times—’twas no great loss—
They hung the thief upon the cross:
But now, alas!—I say’t with grief—
They hang the cross upon the thief.”
—Anonymous. “On a Nomination to the Legion of Honour,” from Aubrey Stewart’s English Epigrams and Epitaphs (1897)
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Such blessings, as I remarked, in effect, to the waiter,
Are added unto them that have plenty of water.”
—Norman Cameron (b. 1905)