Monsignor Robert Nolan Robert M. Nolan was born on August 20, 1874, in Junction City, Kansas. His parents were Irish immigrants, and he was the youngest of eight children. He was drawn to the cloth at an early age. The story goes that he would tear a hole in a sheet of newspaper, poke his head through the hole, and wear the sheet as vestments of the Church. He was educated by the Sisters of Charity at St. Mary’s and graduated from St. Benedict’s College in Atchison, Kansas,

Founded by the Sisters of St. Mary of Namur Mother Emilie German-born Mother Emilie Kemen was the founder of the congregation of the Sisters of St. Mary of Namur in Belgium in 1819, in the wake of the French Revolution, when religious communities were forbidden throughout France. The nuns came to America in the depths of the American Civil War. They settled in Lockport, New York, near Buffalo, where they established a school for immigrant children. Sacred Heart Academy (187

Founded by John B. Laneri John B. Laneri (1858-1935) Giovanni “John” Battista Laneri was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1858. At the age of 15, he immigrated to the United States with his younger brother, George, arriving at the port of New Orleans in 1873. He later moved to Marshall, Texas, where he worked in banking and at a local hotel. In 1882, John relocated to Fort Worth, where he became the general manager of a lunch counter at the Texas & Pacific Railroad Depot. By age 24,

Administered by the Society of Mary and Sisters of St. Mary of Namur Est. 1961 Nolan Catholic High School In 1960, the Amon G. Carter Foundation donated 50+ acres on Fort Worth’s eastside to the Dallas Diocese to build a new Catholic high school on Bridge Street. At a cost of two million dollars, the school and gym were built in addition to two separate residences for The Sisters of St. Mary of Namur and The Marianists. Ruth Carter Johnson Stevenson, daughter of Nenetta and