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ALLARD HOUSE |
At St Benedict's (from Grade R to Matric!) all day boys are allocated to one of the four day houses - Allard, Erasme, Mazenod or O'Leary.
Brothers are allocated to the same house. And sons of Old Boys to the same house as their fathers.
In 2007 a fifth house, Grandin House was added. All boarders, whether weekly boarders or termly boarders are allocated to Grandin House.
Houses compete each year for the Mayoral Trophy, a trophy presented to St.Benedict's in 1967 by the then Mayor of Bedfordview.
At this time Bedfordview was an independent Village and had its own Council and its own Mayor - who often participated in functions at St.Benedict's. Today Bedfordview is only a a suburb of Greater Germiston and there is only one Mayor for the whole of Germiston.
The most important inter-house activities each year are the annual Plays, annual Swimming Gala and Inter-House Athletics. |
| Bishop Jean-Marie Allard O.M.I. - the first bishop of what is now the whole of the old Transvaal, KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State, Lesotho and Mozambique! |
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ERASME HOUSE |
| Father Philip Erasme O.M.I. - Provincial of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, who founded St Benedict's in 1958. |
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GRANDIN HOUSE |
| Bishop Vital Grandin O.M.I. - missionary to the Inuit peoples and the Northern Territories of Canada. |
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MAZENOD HOUSE |
| Saint Eugene de Mazenod O.M.I. - Bishop of Marseilles, France, founder of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Declared a saint of the Church in 1995. |
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O'LEARY HOUSE |
| Bishop David O'Leary O.M.I. - Bishop of Johannesburg at whose behest the College was founded in 1958. |