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St. Anthony’s: The Early Years
The History of St. Anthony’s Mission School, as it was called then, goes back to 1917 when Fr James of San Marcellos OFM Cap (Capuchin) started to visit Paharganj area from St. Mary’s Church, Old Delhi, in order to cater to the spiritual need of the Christians staying there.
Fr. Luke Ernesto Vannucci, the Parish Priest of St. Mary’s Church, Old Delhi, first started St. Teresa Parish School, which is called today. “Presentation Convent School,” in old Delhi in 1921 and within a year he started St. Anthony’s Mission (co-ed) School in 1922 with just four students.
This he could do it only with the blessings of His Archbishop Angelo Raffaele Bemacchioni, O.F.M. Cap., who was the Archbishop of Agra at that time. When St. Anthony’s Mission School was started in 1922, it functioned under the tent in the St. Anthony’s Church Complex.
St. Anthony’s Mission (co-ed) School received official recognition on 5ª of June, 1931 by the Municipal Education Office, Delhi and in the following year, which is 1932 the school received Grant-in-aid. In the year 1933 Fr. Louis Turcheschi, the then parish priest of St. Anthony’s Church and manager of St. Anthony’s Mission (co-ed) School built the first permanent school building on the main road (DGB road) along with the staff quarters.He also built St. Anthony’s Orphanage which was inaugurated on February 19, 1934. In the year 1934 the school had a strength of forty boys and six girls. In all the letters that our school received from the department since 1935, our school is addressed as St. Anthony’s Boys’ Primary School.
That makes it clear that in the year 1935, St. Anthony’s Mission (co-ed) school was bifurcated into boys’ and girls’ schools and started functioning separately under the names of St. Anthony’s Boys’ Primary School and St. Anthony’s Girls’ Primary School.
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