This is a recent photo of the Maryknoll elementary and High School in Las Higueras, Talcahuano, Chile. It was a free school under the Society of Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. We had 200 teachers and over 2,000 students with classes in the morning from 8:00 to 2:00 in the afternoon. More classes from 2:30 to 7:00 p.m. in the afternoon.
It was the largest school complex in Chile. The other being in Lima, peru which was St. Rose of Lima, also under the sponsorship of Maryknoll.
This parish and school was turned over to the archdiocese of Concepcion in 1986 with me be the last Maryknoller there.
We also had another parish called San Miguel in Huapencillo. This area of Chile was an industrial area with the largest steel mill in the country which was from the Bethleham steel company in the United States. There was a number of priests, Brothers and Sisters in this parish that belong to Maryknoll.
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