As reported by the Daily Advertiser in 1992, more than 700 people attended the official blessing and opening of the Wagga Diocesan Seminary, Vianney College.
The official blessing was conducted by the Apostolic Pronuncio in Australia, his excellency Franco Brambilla, the personal representative in Australia of Pope John Paul II (who is pictured here with the Bishop of the Wagga Diocese, the Most Reverend William Brennan).
The new college is named for St Jean Marie Vianney, Cure of Arts, a rural priest in France who is the patron saint of parish priests.
In his speech at the ceremony, Bishop Brennan said the diocese had begun a new chapter in the history of its local church with the opening of the seminary.
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