?I?ve heard a lot about Benedictine in the months since I came to Cleveland,? Bishop Nelson Perez told the students, faculty, staff, board of trustees and Benedictine monks during a May 9 visit to the school. He said he?s had the opportunity to visit with the monks at St. Andrew Abbey, but this was his first visit to the 400-student all-boys high school that shares the campus with the abbey. Benedictine was founded in 1927.
The bishop celebrated Mass in the abbey church, greeted the congregation outside and then toured the high school with several students before eating lunch with his tour guides, Principal Sue Zulandt and Frank Bossu, Benedictine president.
?I hear this school is a legacy,? he said, ?the home of champions.? The bishop also acknowledged that Deacon Ed Gardias, who assisted him at the Mass, is a 1977 Benedictine graduate.
During his homily, Bishop Perez asked the students to tell him a few things that make Benedictine special. Among the answers were a generational legacy
