Did you know the MSC own a Christian School in Rome?

The photo has Tim Brennan with Secretary General, Mike Miller, and assistant, Richard Suresh – the gentleman in the shirt is the Principal of the school, Eric Mayer.

Tim writes: Presently about 200 students and 50 boarders-some housed offsite.

Students are from around the world -a good number from the USA. With FAO around the corner it is a popular school for the families of their employees.

The curriculum includes a large number of languages including Greek and Latin. As well they are into a range of modern STEM subjects. They were the only Italian School to enter a student model car in the Formula One for School Students in the UAE.

The school is St Stephens. Those with long memories will know that it is the former international scholasticate at Via Aventina 3, next to the FAO building. It was the scholasticate from the end of World War II until 1972. The MSC lease it to St Stephen’s.

Established by the Rev. John O. Patterson, former Headmaster of the Kent School in Connecticut, to epitomize the best elements of a classical liberal arts education, St. Stephen's opened for classes in 1964 and the first seniors graduated in 1966.

The neighbourhood, the Circo Massimo and the Palatine hil and ruins

Its founder chose Rome as the site because he believed the city to be "the symbol and repository of the enduring ethical, cultural and religious values of the West", as well as "one of the most cosmopolitan international crossroads of the modern world. "

Memories: Barry Brundell, John Bosman, Peter Malone and former superior general, Michael Curran, were ordained in the chapel and celebrated their first Masses there, 1965 and 1966.