BENSONHURST — Bishop Kearney High School’s larger-than-life Blessed Mother statue has found a new home, just a block away at St. Athanasius Catholic Academy. It used to be a welcoming, iconic figure on the high school’s exterior, located on the corner of 60th Street and Bay Parkway.
In January 1962, the high school’s paper, The Trumpet, reported that then-Bishop of the Diocese Bryan J. McEntegart named Our Lady Seat of Wisdom as the patroness of the school — expressing “the hope that for generations to come the students of this first school would be dedicated to Mary, their Mother, and would imitate the loveliness of Mary, thereby beautifying themselves with a beauty that shines from within”…
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