St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church (Burbank, California)
[1][2][3] The first mass was presided over by Father James O'Neil, then pastor of Holy Family in Glendale, at the Odd Fellows Hall at the corner of San Fernando Road and Olive Avenue.
[2] Around the time the parish was founded, Mother (later Saint) Frances Xavier Cabrini obtained 475 acres (1.92 km2) in the Verdugo Mountains above Burbank (on the present site of Woodbury University).
Mother Cabrini built a school, chapel and "preventorium" where girls could learn without fear of catching tuberculosis.
She prayed daily in a one-room shrine to the Virgin Mary, built atop a hill overlooking the Valley.
Keating was a chaplain in World War I and a patriot with a deep respect for the country's founding fathers, especially Thomas Jefferson.
He recalled seeing Father Keating dressed in an Army uniform for the flag raising ceremony and opening prayer.
Keating believed that Bellarmine's writings had been an influence on Thomas Jefferson, and that the Declaration of Independence was based on St. Robert's dictum written in 1567: "All men are equal, not in wisdom or in grace, but in the essence and nature of mankind.
Keating further honored the founders by using colonial architecture for all the campus buildings: church, rectory, and high school (named Bellarmine-Jefferson in joint tribute to St. Robert and Thomas Jefferson).
That same year, the unit served as the honor guard for Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII on his arrival and departure from Burbank.
Keating's lifelong championship of patriotism and his advocacy of the cause of labor by appointing him a papal chamberlain in 1937 and a domestic prelate in 1950.
Reilly was accused in a civil lawsuit of molesting a boy more than two decades earlier at a parish school in the San Gabriel Valley.
[7] The centennial concluded In September 2007, with a mass concelebrated by Cardinal Roger Mahony, Auxiliary Bishop Gerald Eugene Wilkerson, Father John Collins, Msgr.
Keating, the campus of St. Robert Bellarmine incorporates colonial architecture reminiscent of important structures in American history.
[15] Its buildings are featured in An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles which describes the campus as follows: "Monsignor Martin Cody Keating, the priest who envisioned this, deserves some kind of medal.
[16] The portico of the current church, dedicated in 1939 and designed by George Adams, was modeled on the south front of Jefferson's home at Monticello.
"[15] In an alcove on the left side of the church, there was previously a statue of St. Robert Bellarmine holding a book inscribed with the words: "Political right is from God and necessarily inherent in the nature of man.
The side of the clock facing west is set for 4 p.m., the hour that the Constitution of the United States was signed on September 17, 1787.
[15] The auditorium was added in 1952 and was designed by Barker and Ott in a Classical Roman style inspired by Jefferson's library at the University of Virginia.
