St. Martin of Tours School community in Gaithersburg marks a century of faith and learning
The 100th anniversary celebration for St. Martin of Tours School in Gaithersburg, Maryland, this past fall unfolded as a homecoming for graduates, parents, and current and past school staff and parish priests.
The guests interviewed at the anniversary event on Sept. 13, 2025 at the Holiday Inn Gaithersburg reflected on a century of faith and learning at the oldest Catholic school in Montgomery County, where Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur welcomed the first students in 1925.
Bishop Mark Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, returned to celebrate an anniversary Mass at St. Martin of Tours Church with Father David Wells, the parish and school’s pastor. Bishop Brennan – who served as St. Martin’s pastor from 2003 until he was ordained as an auxiliary bishop for Baltimore in 2017 – remembered how seventh and eighth graders at the school volunteered at St. Martin’s soup kitchen and its food pantry.