A LITTLE bit of history has been returned to St Columban’s College, Caboolture.
The 35 year-old wooden cross from the former college’s chapel in Albion was returned to the relocated school by the developers of the new Forest Place Retirement Village, Clayfield.
Founded in Albion in 1928, St Columban’s moved north of Brisbane at the end of 1996 and re-opened at Caboolture in 1997. Principal Alain Sauvage, who was deputy principal when the college was at Albion, said staff and students were excited to see the three-metre cross returned to the school.
‘When we moved we would have liked to have taken a little bit more with us,’ he said.
‘We were touched that the developers didn’t bulldoze (the cross) without thinking and took the trouble to contact us.’
Representatives from Forest Place made a formal presentation of the cross at the Year 12 valedictory assembly on November 16.
