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In 100 years St. Augustine's Seminary has prepared some 2,000 men for priesthood. They're all memorable, but here are four who for different reasons are more remembered.

Editor's note: The Register's Evan Boudreau asked four alumni of St. Augustine's Seminary to reminisce about their time at the seminary. Here is what they had to say.

St. Augustine’s Seminary is not only a training ground for priests but it has been a centre for deacon formation since the permanent diaconate came to Toronto 41 years ago.

CAIRO - Two weeks after the churches he used to pray in were ransacked and burned in the Egyptian port city of Suez, Istafanos Youssif sat "searching for God" in a Cairo convent.

When you consider the gifts St. Augustine’s Seminary has given the local Church, there is plenty to celebrate, says Fr. John-Mark Missio, co-ordinator of the seminary’s 100th anniversary liturgical celebrations. In fact, it’s something the entire Church should celebrate.

Toronto’s patron is St. Michael. Canada’s patron is St. Joseph. So why name the seminary established to train priests for Toronto and Western Canada after a fourth-century North African bishop?

TORONTO - As if church bombings weren’t bad enough, northern Nigeria is also suffering from oversimplification in Western media reports. Reports of Islamist terrorism directed at Christians in Nigeria very often lack context and depth, said Bishops Anselm Umoren, auxiliary bishop of Abuja, Nigeria.

TORONTO - After two decades as the Institute for Catholic Education’s executive director, Sr. Joan Cronin is moving on.

Few of us associate Scarborough with Florence. But next door to the Scarborough Bluffs architect Arthur W. Holmes deposited a little taste of Italy from Florence’s greatest architect.

For its 100th birthday one of Toronto’s architectural masterpieces will be hiding behind a massive fretwork of scaffolding.