Friday, March 18, about 15 seminarians, priests and men discerning walked the 8 miles from St. Mary's to Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral while praying the Stations of the Cross.

The seminarians who are preparing for ordination to the diaconate must make a profession of faith and oath of fidelity prior to ordination. Today they each placed their right hand on the book of the Gospels opened to the Passion from the Gospel of Mark as their made this solemn oath.

Bishop Nicholas Gallagher founded St. Mary's Seminary in the wake of the 1900 Galveston storm. In this second annual celebration, seminarians and faculty remembered his legacy and the founding of St. Mary's Seminary.