A blessing is set to signal the start of a new chapter at a Dunedin school with a dark past.
The Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, Bishop Michael Dooley, will perform a pre-dawn blessing of the renamed Trinity Catholic College this Saturday, accompanied by the college kaumatua.
The former Kavanagh College became Trinity Catholic College on January 1, following years of lobbying from survivors of sexual abuse.
The new name was chosen following an inquiry last year which concluded that the late Bishop John Kavanagh, after whom the college was named, did not act on a complaint of abuse when he was Bishop of Dunedin from 1957 to 1985.
In consultation with the school community, Bishop Dooley decided to rename the school Trinity Catholic College.