The auditorium/gymnasium/church provided comfortable accommodations for nine hundred worshipers. The eight-room school building was designed to provide the maximum efficiency and space as dictated by professional school planners. On the feast of the Most Holy Rosary, October 7, 1951, Bishop Jules Jeanmard dedicated the new parish facilities. The contract was given to the general contracting firm of Romero and Theall for $212,000. Benedict set out to build his church and on October 16, 1949, bids were received for Our Lady of Fatima School, which was designed by Harold J. He chose Our Lady of Fatima as the name of the Parish because it was in the town of Fatima, in the country of Portugal, where Mary appeared to three young children telling them to be messengers of God’s news. Benedict had the great idea to create a new Catholic Church parish and school and name them after Mary, the Mother of Jesus.
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