St. Viator Vocational High School is a
Roman Catholic
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High School
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managed by St. Francis Xavier Parish in the
Corozal District
Corozal District is the northernmost district of the nation of Belize. The population was 33,894 in 2000. The district capital is Corozal Town.
Pre-Columbian Maya ruins are found in Corozal at Santa Rita near Corozal Town, and at Cerros.
Town ...
of
Belize
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. It is located 1.5 miles beyond
Chunox
Chunox is a village located in the Corozal District of Belize, with a population of 1,143 people. It is primarily an agricultural community surrounded by sugar cane fields, and is located on the east bank of Laguna Seca. The official language is ...
on the Chunox
Sarteneja
Sarteneja is the largest fishing community and the second largest village in Belize. It recorded a population of 3,500 according to a 2016 estimate. The name ''Sarteneja'' is a Castilian distortion of its original Mayan name ''Tza-ten-a-ha'', whic ...
road.
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History
St. Viator opened in August 2004 on land formerly used as an agricultural center. The center included four classroom buildings constructed with poverty alleviation funds from the UK.
Viatorian Christopher Glancy, later auxiliary bishop of Belize, was instrumental in the founding of St. Viator during his time as pastor of Xavier parish in Corozal. Its focus was to be agriculture and tourism. The Viatorian community added another eight-classroom building and equipped the facility with agricultural machinery and labs for science, computers, and home economics.[Woods, Charles M. Sr., et al. ''Years of Grace: The History of Roman Catholic Evangelization in Belize: 1524-2014.'' (Belize: Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan, 2015).]
The namesake of the Viatorians, St. Viator, was a lector or a catechist
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at the cathedral of Lyons and close associate of St. Justus in fourth century France
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. As a fruit of Viatorian efforts a resident of Chunox, Fr. Moses Mesh, was ordained a priest for Belize in 2011.[
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Today
St. Viator has been making secondary education accessible and affordable to the community of the southeastern Corozal District since its inception.[ The enrollment is just over 130 students and there are 5 faculty and 3 auxiliary staff. Mr. Marconie Moh serves as Principal of Chunox St. Viator and Mr. Francisco Magaña as Chairman, Board of Management.][ ]
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Educational institutions established in 2004
Catholic secondary schools in Belize
2004 establishments in Belize
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