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50 years ago — Nov. 21, 1969
IN ATTENDANCE — Most Rev. John J. Scanlan of Honolulu, at left, and Most. Rev. Timothy Manning of Los Angeles are pictured together during a break in the annual U.S. Bishops’ meeting last week in Washington.
25 years ago — Nov. 18, 1994
Under wraps
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in downtown Honolulu disappeared for about 24 hours this week.
On Nov. 14, in a six-hour process that provided a workday drama for chancery employees, workers from Diversified Exterminators scurried all over the 50-foot high, 100-yard-long church wrapping it in 13 huge bright orange tarps in preparation to kill the termites eating away at the historic structure.
10 years ago — Nov. 13, 2009
From orphanage to home to retreat center: St. Anthony in Kalihi Valley celebrates a century
Early one morning 100 years ago — on Sept. 29, feast of St. Michel the Archangel — 68-year-old Mother Marie Lawrence, superior of the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts Fort Street convent; Mother Alexandrine, leader of the sisters pioneer group; and three other Sisters of the Sacred Hearts stepped down from a streetcar at the bottom of the hill where Kamehameha Schools now stands.
Along a dirt road they walked two and a half miles to where a footpath would take them the final quarter-mile to the large building that would be their home — Kalihi Catholic Orphanage. By 9 a.m. they were at journey’s end. That same day they received two 12-year-old girls, and their ministry of caring for needy children began.