Bishop Grandin House
St Benedict's College, Bedfordview, South Africa
 

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Bishop Vital Grandin O.M.I. - missionary to the Inuit peoples and the Northern Territories of Canada

The "Community House" was originally built to house the priests who ran the school in its earliest years and who comprised almost the entire school staff.  In 2005 the decision was made to convert the house into boarding facilities and in 2006 history was made with the admission of our first 20 boarders. Bishop Grandin House was born.

Bishop Grandin was a French Oblate missionary to Canada who did much to spread the faith among the Inuit in the late 19th Century.  He was active in Canada about the same time that the early Oblates were active in Southern Africa.  It is also significant that three of the Oblates who were among the first teachers at St Benedict's in the 1950's and 1960's were missionaries from Canada. 

The house has now developed into a fully fledged boarding establishment, catering for 80 boys, and will soon take its rightful place as the backbone of the school. The hostel offers both Weekly and Termly Boarding for boys from Grades 7-12. Every effort is made to create a caring environment where each boy has the opportunity to realize his full potential within the class as well as on the sports fields. The boys develop a sense of independence within an environment of structure and discipline. Attendance at weekly Mass is compulsory and the termly boarders attend Mass on Sundays