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ROCHESTER STONE FOR U.S. COLLEGE
TWO stones from St. Andrew's Cathedral, once Cardinal St. John Fisher's church in Rochester, Kent, have by the kindness of the Anglican Dean, been shipped to America and sealed into the corner-stone of the new St. John Fisher College, in Rochester, U.S.A.
Three months ago the American diocese gave $30,000 towards St. John Fisher's, the first post-Reformation Catholic church in Rochester, Eng land, when the foundation stone was laid by Bishop Cowderoy.
In the summer of 1949 two priests from America's Rochester visited St. Andrew's Cathedral and St. John Fisher's home as well as the site of the new church in the company of Fr. O'Riordan, of Chatham. When their Bishop. Mgr. Kearney, heard the story he expressed the wish to have a stone from the historic building for his new seminary and for the new College of St. John Fisher, opened a year ago.
A crowd of 5,000 people last week watched Bishop Kearney as he performed the ceremony.
The Gothic-style buildirig, first of several planned by the college, has a 175-ft. tower surmounted by a golden
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