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A young Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph makes her way to the little schoolhouse one morning.

Four years ago, the archives opened a safe that had remained locked for over a decade.

The November 1939 issue of The Mount, Mount Saint Joseph Academy’s newspaper, proclaimed “A never to be forgotten happiness came to Mount Saint Joseph on Wednesday, November 8th, in the visit of Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, noted Catholic writer and radio speaker.”

In the early 1950s, a Knights of Columbus council in Owensboro wanted to build a clubhouse for the recreation of its members.

Fr. Maurice Teill is a name that many of you have not heard in quite some time, but I’m sure remember quite well.

On December 24, 1939, at 11:20 p.m., Mount Saint Joseph’s bell rings out across the freezing cold night in St. Joseph, Kentucky.

It’s early 1945, and the United States digs in their heels for a war they fear may last another decade.

This final installment of the story of Fr. Robert Gipperich will take up where the last one left off in our September WKC column. The good priest now fully understood that returning to serve the Church in Louisville was no longer a possibility.

The previous article in August covered the creation of the Diocese of Owensboro from the western territory of the Diocese of Louisville. This resulted in many Louisville priests, nicknamed “the 40 Martyrs,” being bound to the newly-created Diocese of Owensboro.

The 40 Martyrs is the moniker given to the first priests of our diocese. They were given this title because they were displaced from their home, the Diocese of Louisville. Without warning, they were bound to a newly created rural diocese.