Weekly #3 (Emily Patrick, Lindsay Kraus, and Amanda Reid)

 The above standing stone was placed by Archbishop John Carroll himself to show the location where he wanted the school to be built.  On the middle stone in Latin, it says “Scientia potenta est.” which means knowledge is the ability to do things.  This became the entrance to the school.  The picture below shows where Eleanor Darnall, his mother, was buried.  There are some folk tales to these stones as well. Some teachers say that when the students did not do their homework, the principle would turn them into stone and add it to the burial grounds.  Teachers say that whenever a student fails a quarter, they have to add a rock to the circle.  Other people say that if you stand in the stone circle in top picture and read the Latin, you will be blessed with knowledge.  In the beginning of every year, the classes all gather and recite the Latin together.  Twenty years ago, the school decided not to go and recite the Latin because they believed that is was some silly story.  Only 50% of the seniors graduated that year.  So ever since then, the school goes together to recite the old saying.