Our amazing community built a world-class school. Now we
just have to complete our field. Thanks to all of you who
have donated the last few years we are so close to
raising enough money to start the project in Summer 2020
with a completion date of early Fall 2020.
Significant financial commitments and planning have been done so
far, with the School, the Diocese, the SI Soccer Club, SI
Parents, Grandparents, and alumni all contributing to the effort
so far.
We still need help making the field of dreams a reality.
In the early 1950s, the Most Reverend Robert J.Armstrong, Bishop
of the Diocese of Sacramento, realized that the once rural
parishes of St.Philomene and Our Lady of the Assumption were
overflowing with Catholic families. He reconfigured the
area and created a new parish – St.Ignatius. The growth of
Sacramento had stretched the ranks of the diocesan priests.
Bishop Armstrong invited the Jesuit provincial to send priests to
staff the new parish, build a school, and eventually build a
Jesuit high school. In 1954, the provincial sent Father
Fred Cosgrove, S.J., Prefect
