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The revived Seminary has grown steadily and become a real power in the creation of a secular clergy. Up to 1947 it could point with pride to not less than 209 priests who have made all or part of their studies within its walls. Seventy-one of the clergy in the Diocese of Galveston in 1947 were natives of the Diocese, and of fifty-seven seminarians en- rolled that year fifty were sons of Texans. 54 Monsignor J. A. Valenta, one of the first to enter (1902) St. Mary's Seminary of La Porte, remained until the Vincentians took over the Seminary in 1951. Monsignor Daniel P. O'Connell was on the faculty from 1915 to 1933, and for his last five years served as the Rector. He was followed in 1933 by Monsignor J. T. Fleming, who was Rector until the Vincentians took charge. Others who over the years have taught at St. Mary's University of La Porte are: Father J. B. O'Leary, 1911-1914; Monsignor Jerome A. Rapp, 19n-1928; Father J. T. Finn, 1914-1933; Father T. F. Hogan, 1922-1932; Monsignor Louis J. Reicher, then the Chancellor of the Diocese and now the Bishop of Austin, 1926-1927; Father Michael J. Leahy, 1926-1940; Father J. K. Reybaud, 1927-1929; Monsignor Harry A. Drouillet, 1928-1940; Father E. A. Holub, 1929- J936; Father Daniel Leahr, 1929-1940; and Father Joseph P. Walsh, 1936-1943. Since 1936 others have joined the faculty: Fathers Andrew B. Deslatte in 1937, H. A. Dillon in 1938, Vincint M. Harris in 1940; Monsignor Right Reverend T. A. Carney in 1941, Fathers Carl T. Kermiet in 1943, and in 1946 Fathers James A. Nelson and Victor Di Primeo. St. Antliony's Seminary, San Antonio, 1903. The closing of St. Joseph's Seminary at Victoria in 1902 led more or less to the founding of the first permanent major Seminary in the Diocese of San Antonio. Bishop Forest of San Antonio had begun to look about for means to establish a Seminary in his see city. As early as March 28, 1898, he had 54 /bid., 147. St. Mary's University was intrusted to the Vincentions by Bishop Nold in I 95 r. Very Reverend William P. Barr, S.T.D., was assigned as the first Vincentian Presi- dent of the Seminary. Serving under him were the following members of bis con- gregation: Fathers Marion L. Gibbons, LL.B., J.C.D., as Vice President and Secre- tary or Dean of Discipline; Carlton A. Prindeville, S.T·.D., as Spiritual Director; Louis H. Meteye, Ph.L.; Donald V. Fallon; Francis C. Hynes, S.T.L., Treasurer; James A. Fischer, S.T.L., S.ScrL.; Jerome S. Calcagno; and a diocesan priest as Choir Director, Victor A. Di Primeo. Such was the faculty on whom fell the burden of teaching and forming the eighty-five seminarians who were on the rolls of St. Mary's University of I 9 s I . The newly built St. Mary's Seminary, in Houston, was dedicated November 4, 1954 by His Eminence Samuel Cardinal Stritch.
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