Holy Rosary School in Gardner instilled strong faith and educational values to help build well-rounded students
Mike Richard
Special for The Gardner News
“The foundation of Holy Rosary School did not happen by chance,” wrote former pastor Andre Dargis in the 100th anniversary celebration booklet for the Our Lady of the Holy Rosary School in 2003.
“Faced with a nationwide public school system too often animated by anti-Catholic bias, the Bishops of the United States, in 1829 and again in 1858, solemnly declared it necessary that schools be established in every parish if at all possible, in which the young be taught the principles of faith and morality, along with the usual secular subjects,” he noted.