175th Anniversary

175 Years of Jesuit Education

Over the past 175 years, more than 20,000 men have counted themselves as Jesuit alumni. From the school’s original campus on Baronne Street to the imposing wooden doors overlooked by the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Carrollton Avenue to the hushed splendor of the second floor Holy Name Chapel, the halls of Jesuit High School have been the intellectual and spiritual home for generations of Blue Jays.

The buildings themselves, however, and even the people who occupy them in a given generation, are merely conduits for the real legacy we have inherited; rather, our true inheritance is the living tradition of Ignatian spirituality that animates and binds these buildings and people into the vibrant school once audaciously imagined by our founders.