Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary

Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary
Address
Map
103 East Chestnut Street

Chicago
,
Illinois

United States
Coordinates41°53′52″N 87°37′33″W / 41.89778°N 87.62583°W / 41.89778; -87.62583
Information
Typeprivate high school seminary
MottoOra et Labora
(Pray and work)
DenominationRoman Catholic
Established1918 (as Quigley Seminary)
FounderGeorge Mundelein
Statusclosed (Archdiocese now uses historic structure for other purposes)
Closed2007
OversightArchdiocese of Chicago
Grades9–12
Genderall-male
Campus typeUrban
Color(s)Navy blue and White   
Team namePhoenix
NewspaperThe Talon
Quigley Preparatory Seminary
Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary is located in Chicago metropolitan area
Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary
Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary is located in Illinois
Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary
Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary is located in the United States
Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary
Built1917
ArchitectZachary Taylor Davis
Architectural styleLate 19th And 20th Century Revivals
NRHP reference No.96000093[1]
Added to NRHP16 February 1996

Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary was an American seminary preparatory school administered by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago for young men considering the priesthood. Located in downtown Chicago at 103 East Chestnut Street, adjacent to Loyola University Chicago's Water Tower campus, it closed on 22 June 2007, and became the Archbishop Quigley Center, the pastoral center and headquarters of the archdiocese after renovations ending 19 November 2008.[2] Between 1961 and 1990, the seminary was split into two campuses: Quigley South and Quigley North, with Quigley North housed at the original building. The south campus was closed in 1990, with all seminary operations returning to the original building.

The predecessor of the school, Cathedral College of the Sacred Heart, was founded in 1905. Cardinal George Mundelein announced plans in 1916 for the building of a preparatory seminary at Rush and Chestnut streets in downtown Chicago, and named the school in honor of his predecessor, Archbishop James Edward Quigley.[3] Echoing the educational theories of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Cardinal Mundelein surrounded Quigley students with great architectural beauty:

"This will unquestionably be the most beautiful building here in Chicago, not excluding the various buildings of the University of Chicago."[4]

Quigley's Chapel of St. James,[5] with stained glass modeled after Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, was dedicated upon the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Archdiocese of Chicago and the twenty-fifth anniversary of Mundelein's priestly ordination on 10 June 1920.[6] Designed by architect Zachary Taylor Davis,[7] with stained glass by Robert Giles of the John J. Kinsella Company of Chicago,[8] it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1996. The American Institute of Architects Guide to Chicago has termed the stained glass of the Quigley Chapel "dazzling."[9]

The Quigley seminaries have educated almost 2,500 priests,[10] two cardinals,[11] over forty-one bishops,[12] two Vatican II periti, separate recipients of the Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, and, in sports, two members of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 23 January 2007.
  2. ^ [1] Catholic New World online edition, "Looking Back, 2008", as accessed 1 April 2009
  3. ^ "Catholicism, Chicago Style (A Campion Book) by Ellen Skerrett, Edward R. Kantowicz, Steven M. Avella, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 082940774X". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 25 November 2006. Ellen Skerrett, Edward R. Kantowicz, and Steven M. Avella, Catholicism, Chicago Style, Loyola Press, 1993
  4. ^ "Catholicism, Chicago Style (A Campion Book) by Ellen Skerrett, Edward R. Kantowicz, Steven M. Avella, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 082940774X". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 25 November 2006. Ellen Skerrett, Edward R. Kantowicz, and Steven M. Avella, Catholicism, Chicago Style, Loyola Press, 1993, pg. 68
  5. ^ "Friends of the Windows at St. James Chapel". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 2 September 2007. Friends of the Windows "Welcome to St. James Chapel" tour website. Retrieved 1 September 2007
  6. ^ Koenig, Harry C., ed. (1981). Caritas Christi Urget Nos: A History of the Offices, Agencies, and Institutions of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Vol. I. Chicago, Ill.: Archdiocese of Chicago. p. 341. OCLC 8411062.
  7. ^ Zachary Davis also designed Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park; see [2] Chicago Architecture Foundation website. Retrieved 30 August 2007; also, Comiskey Park
  8. ^ "Friends of the Windows at St. James Chapel". Archived from the original on 4 January 2007. Retrieved 11 January 2007. Friends of the Windows website as accessed on 15 January 2007
  9. ^ Sinkevitch, Alice, ed. (2004). AIA Guide to Chicago. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt. p. 130. ISBN 0-15-602908-1.
  10. ^ "Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary". Archived from the original on 24 April 2007. Retrieved 15 May 2007. Quigley: One Hundred Years of Memories, 1905–2005, Taylor Publishing, Dallas, 2006, pg. 16
  11. ^ [3] Chicago Tribune, "Archdiocese to close historic Quigley Preparatory Seminary", 20 September 2006; per the C. Tribune article, Cardinal Francis George, OMI, attended Quigley for one day
  12. ^ [4] Archived 4 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine Peter Snieg, "Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary: Its mission and issues confronting its existence as a high school seminary", Seminary Journal, 10(2), 2004, pp. 24–35