Seventy-Five Years of Faith on Gower Street

In 1951, sixty children in kindergarten through fourth grade were taught in rooms on the first floor of a converted farmhouse. The Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity served the parish and school; classes later moved into tin buildings purchased from the Donaldson Air Force Base.

In 1956 the brick school on Gower Street opened its doors. For three-quarters of a century, generations of Greenville families have been formed in faith here — families who sometimes had nowhere else to worship, and who built one of the city's treasures out of courage and joy.

This year we celebrate seventy-five years of that story — and we are not finished. Join us for the anniversary celebrations, the anniversary scholarship campaign, and the Mass of Thanksgiving that will open the next chapter of St. Anthony of Padua.