Graduation 2024

Commencement Speaker

Father Higinio Rosolen

Fr. Higinio Rafael Rosolen is a priest of the Diocese of St. Petersburg, FL. He hails from San Rafael, Mendoza Province, Argentina. He was ordained as a missionary priest on August 29th, 2003. After earning a Licentiate in Biblical Exegesis at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, he served as a parish priest in Italy, Greece, and Canada. He gave conferences, conducted seminars, and preached retreats and parochial missions in several countries of Europe and the Americas. He authored publications on biblical topics including The Gospel of Mark and The Book of Tobit. From 2016 to 2021, he was on faculty at Saint Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, FL. After serving at St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Tampa, FL, he came to Saint Joseph Seminary College in January 2023. Currently he is serving as Professor, Spiritual Director of the Propaedeutic Program, and Coordinator of Intellectual Formation.

Class of 1964 Father Paul Miranne Service Award

The annual Fr. Paul Miranne Service Award in honor of the Alumni Class of 1964 is to honor a graduate who embodies the sentiments of the ancient dictum Esse Quam Videri: to be rather than seem to be. 

The award, which consists of a monetary prize of $1,000, is presented to a graduate who, during his years at Saint Joseph Seminary College, has performed quiet service, without publicity or fanfare. 

This year’s award recipient Hilario Martinez from the Diocese of Dallas.

Previous Fr. Paul Miranne Service Award Winners are:

• 2024 Hilario Martinez, Diocese of Dallas

• 2023 Haden Colemen, Diocese of Lafayette

• 2022 Angel Crespo, Diocese of El Paso

• 2021 Carlos Jamie, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston

• 2019 David Ergivi Ramirez, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston

• 2018 William Cade LeBlanc, Diocese of Lafayette

• 2017 Charles Andrew Silvas, Diocese of Corpus Christi

• 2016 Matthew Thomas Dunn, Diocese of Baton Rouge