Bishop John Shaw was importing priests from Europe when he discerned the need for a seminary for the Diocese of San Antonio, TX. A locally-formed clergy was key to the support of the Catholic faith in the young diocese. Relying on five diocesan priests as faculty, Shaw dedicated St. John's Seminary in 1915. A frontier, make-do attitude energized the first faculty as they taught and guided the seminary's first class who lived and studied in what had been the bishop's residence. In its first century, St. John's Assumption Seminary has trained nearly 800 priests for service in arch/dioceses...

Bishop John Shaw was importing priests from Europe when he discerned the need for a seminary for the Diocese of San Antonio, TX. A locally-formed clergy was key to the support of the Catholic faith in the young diocese. Relying on five diocesan priests as faculty, Shaw dedicated St. John's Seminary in 1915. A frontier, make-do attitude energized the first faculty as they taught and guided the seminary's first class who lived and studied in what had been the bishop's residence. In its first century, St. John's Assumption Seminary has trained nearly 800 priests for service in arch/dioceses...