Moye

The building sheltered a seminary for Mexican priests driven out by persecution. The Seminary of St. Philip opened here in January 1915 for candidates whose studies had been halted under Venustiano Carranza, financed largely through Monsignor Francis Kelley of the Catholic Church Extension Society. By May 1918, when it closed in the belief that the oppression was ending, fifty-nine of its students had been ordained for Mexican dioceses. After persecution worsened under Plutarco E. Calles, a second seminary opened in September 1929 with twenty-four students, closing in July 1930 as Mexico's own seminaries reopened.

What the plaque says

Moye Named for the Rev. John Martin Moye, founder (1762) of the Sisters of Divine Providence, religious order that opened school in Castroville in 1868, and built first part of this structure in 1873: first mother house of the order in the United States. Occupants since 1900 have been Providence Industrial School, St. Philip's Seminary, Refuge for Persecution Victims, and several other endeavors. Repurchased 1939 by Sisters of Divine Providence and used as military academy for boys. Now used as Training Center for Religious Life. 1972

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Landmark Inn State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  A store and stage stop at the Medina River ford in Henri Castro's Alsatian town, with a mill race under the ground and rooms you can still rent for the night.
• Casa Navarro State Historic Site — 23 mi
  The adobe and caliche-block home of José Antonio Navarro, a native-born signer of the 1836 declaration, and the last remnant of the Tejano neighborhood called Laredito.
• Mission Concepción — 23 mi
  A stone church dedicated in 1755 that has never fallen into ruin, its convento ceilings still painted, and the ground where the Texas Revolution's fight for San Antonio began.
• King William Historic District — 24 mi
  Mission farmland turned German merchants' quarter on the San Antonio River, renamed in World War I, then saved by a neighbor who restored fourteen houses, starting with his own.

More markers nearby

• St. Louis Day — steps away
• General Wool and the Chihuahua Road — steps away
• Alsatians of Texas — steps away
• Site of the Homestead of Henri Castro — 0.2 mi