"For those who administer and
teach here, this building will be the center of far-reaching Catholic
Action," the Rev. Valentine Long said at the dedication exercises of
the new $2,000,000, 100 room Friary. He delivered the sermon at the Solemn
Dedication Mass celebrated by the Very Rev. Celusus Wheeler, OFM,
Provincial of Holy Name Province who also officiated at the exercises.
Along with Father Wheeler were the Very Rev. Brian Lhota, OFM, university
president, and the Rev. Neil MacDonald, OFM, guardian of the friary.
"Its completion culminates a dream of some 30
years, the building will be a haven of privacy for the Franciscans
scholars and teachers who live within its walls, enabling them to enhance
the position of the university by their lives "in holiness and
learning,'" Father Long added. The Franciscan priests and brothers
stationed at Saint Bonaventure University had lived in Devereux Hall, a
student residence building, until the new Friary was constructed.
To view some other designs for Doyle Hall
(Old Friary) by Brother Cajetan Baumann OFM,
click on either of the Links below. (Refectory and
Chapel). He also designed Francis
Hall
