NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — June 28, 1968
Miss Loretto Sweeney, sister of Bishop James J. Sweeney, gives her brother a final kiss before the casket was closed for the Mass. Monsignor Charles A. Kekumano, seated at the left, served as a pallbearer.
25 years ago — July 2, 1993
Gettin’ some religion
It had a long important sounding name, but when you come right down to it, what was really happening during those two weeks at Damien was a whole bunch of folks coming together to “get some religion.”
That’s not to simplify it or anything.
No. The 1993 Catechetical and Pastoral Institute of Hawaii, days and evenings, June 14-25, at that Catholic Kalihi high school, was indeed a rich and sophisticated repast of a good, solid soul food, much more than any single person could possibly sample all at once.
10 years ago — June 27, 2008
A vineyard takes root in Manoa
In a corner of the Lychee Garden at St. Francis Convent in Manoa, leafy, green grape vines are flourishing atop several plastic latticework fences.
What makes these vines unique is that they come from cuttings taken from the same California Mission grape variety of vines brought to Hawaii some 200 years ago by Don Francisco de Paula Marin, one of the islands’ earliest Catholic immigrants. …
[A local horticulture enthusiast] also gave three rooted and growing vines to Sister of St. Francis Olivia Gibson …
Sister Olivia turned to fellow Sister of St. Francis Joan of Arc Souza, who has a green thumb, to take care of the vines.
Sister Joan of Arc, the principal of St. Francis School, learned to garden from her father and now as a hobby takes care of many of the trees and plants growing on the convent property.
