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Sacred Heart College was founded with the permission of the Vatican in 1877 and later gained approval from the territorial government in 1883. After a disastrous fire in 1901 that destroyed the school and the monastery, the monks accepted an offer from the town of Shawnee and began construction of the Catholic University of Oklahoma and St ...
The community of Sacred Heart revolved around the Sacred Heart Mission. During the early 20th century, many of its functions moved to other locations. High school and college education for boys moved in 1915 to Shawnee , to the facility that eventually became St. Gregory's University .
Established in 1876 in what was then called Indian Territory, the mission school considered moving to a more populated area in the 1890s. After a 1901 fire that destroyed much of what was then called the "Catholic University of Oklahoma", the decision was made to move the high school and college to Shawnee, 35 miles (56 km) to the north.
St. Gregory's Abbey is a Roman Catholic monastery of the American-Cassinese Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation. The monastery, founded by monks of the French monastery of Sainte-Marie de la Pierre-qui-Vire in 1876, was originally located in present-day Konawa, Oklahoma and called Sacred Heart Abbey.
1 Schools accredited by the Oklahoma State Department of Education. ... Shawnee, Pottawatomie County ... Sacred Heart Catholic School, Oklahoma City, ...
Shawnee County will see 11 new principals or assistant principals in the upcoming academic year. ... Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic School principal Eric White will also stay in his current ...
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Gregory's College (later St. Gregory's University) relocated to Shawnee from Sacred Heart in 1915, where it had been associated with a Catholic mission and school. On the evening of May 19, 2013 , a violent EF4 tornado hit the town resulting in two deaths.