Official Opening & Blessing of Mazenod College
Mazenod College Victoria was Officially Opened and Blessed by His Eminence, Thomas Cardinal Cooray OMI (Archbishop of Colombo). Students formed a guard of honour down Kernot Ave to greet the Cardinal as he arrived with the Archbishop of Melbourne with a police escort. After blessing the College, proceedings moved to the quadrangle where a large crowd including students, parents and nuns watched the official unveiling of the plaque by the Federal Minister for Immigration and local MP, Rt Hon Billy Snedden. Seated on the dais with the Federal Minister was Fr Noel Coghlan (Parish Priest of Springvale), Fr William Cagney OMI (Provincial of the Oblates in Australia), His Eminence, Thomas Cardinal Cooray OMI (Archbishop of Colombo), Archbishop Knox (Archbishop of Melbourne), Fr Kevin Toomey (Parish Priest of Clayton), Bishop Cullinane (Auxilliary to Archbishop Knox) and the Rector.