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The cross that once graced the old Bishop Dubois High School on its facade facing Amsterdam Avenue and West 152nd Street is being refashioned into a monument that will stand at Mount St. Michael Academy, 4300 Murdock Ave. in the Bronx.
Now in its final stages of construction and erection, the cross is to be dedicated at its new location during a ceremony Saturday, May 16 at 1:30 p.m. Father James Healy, Dubois class of 1959 and current pastor of St. Paul the Apostle parish in Yonkers, will bless and dedicate the monument in the Mount St. Michael’s quadrangle. Following the ceremony there will be a brief reception at the Mount followed by adjournment to Rory Dolan’s Restaurant nearby on McLean Ave.
A group of Dubois alumni created the Bishop Dubois Cross Project to salvage the 15-foot gray concrete cross when the old school building was demolished in 2002. The cross is being attached to a dark-blue granite stone background. A brass and copper plate will be affixed inscribed, “Grateful Alumni of Bishop Dubois High School, 1946-1976, dedicate this cross to the Marist Brothers, New York diocesan priests, lay faculty, staff and students. May 16, 2015.” Mount St. Michael is a Marist Brothers-operated institution.
