Cardinal Glemp dedicates statue of Fr. Dabrowski

 

 

 

 

 

Poland's Cardinal Joseph Glemp dedicated a statue of one of his countrymen, Fr. Joseph Dabrowski, on the campus of the schools the heroic immigrant priest founded in 1885.

Cardinal Joseph Glemp dedicated a statue of one of his countrymen, Fr. Joseph Dabrowski, the immigrant Polish priest who founded the Orchard Lake Schools, and whose death 100 years ago the Schools are observing. The 1,800-pound bronze statue was commissioned through Fine Arts Sculpture Center in Clarkston woned by Mike Petrucci, the father of three prep alumni sons: Jeffrey (1984, who works with is father), Terry (1987) and Michael (1989). It is located in the plaza in front of the Shrine Chapel of Our Lade of Orchard Lake. About 1,000 people were on campus July 13 for the dedication in the morning and the annual Marian pilgrimage at the Grotto in the afternoon. Cardinal Glemp (foreground, below), Bishop-elect Frank Reiss and the crowd heard Cardinal Adam Maida use the occasion to announce a prayer theme, "Hungering with Mary for the Bread of Life" in the Archdiocese of Detroit in August.