MARY’S MOUNT HISTORICAL WALK
Station K – St Joseph & Jacarandas
In 1943, a statue of St Joseph and the Child Jesus was placed near the entrance of Mary’s Mount in a rose garden. The statue remains there, shaded by a large Jacaranda tree, one of the first planted on the school’s circular drive. Many Jacarandas and the statue have endured through changes to the grounds.
Visitors can see the Jacarandas’ purple blossoms in December and take home a seedpod to grow their own tree. A plaque near the statue now honors past, deceased students.
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Being Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition the Sisters had a special devotion to St Joseph. It was 1943 when the statue of St Joseph and the Child Jesus was placed near the entrance to the school in a rose garden. There, Joseph and Jesus have stayed guarding and blessing all who have wandered past to learn and play. The large Jacaranda that shades them now was one of the first to be planted on the circular drive at the front of the original school. Many of those Jacarandas and St Joseph have survived the changes and additions to the grounds around them. Try counting the Jacarandas around the school site and visit in December to see their colourful display of purple blossoms reaching for the heavens or carpeting the playgrounds. Find a dry seedpod to take home and grow your own Mary’s Mount Jacaranda tree.
Luckily we have a photo of the early gardens in the 1940’s with the statue standing tall amongst smaller shrubs and trees.
Today we have the names of some of our past, now deceased students placed on a plaque nearby St Joseph.
