Father Godofredo Aldenhuijsen

The Founder of Paco Catholic School

• Father Godofredo was born in the quaint little Holland town of Volkel (pop. 1700), in the province of North Brabant, on February 10, 1883 to Aloysius Aldenhuijsen and Dorotea Spierings. Godofredo Aldenhuijsen was brought up in a large Catholic family of eighteen children, seven of whom entered the religious life.

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• At the age of 14, young Godofredo entered the Minor Seminary of St. Michielsgestel, North Brabant and later joined the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary [CICM] at Scheut on September 7, 1903.  He took his philosophy at the Mother House in Scheut and his Theology at the Jesuit Theological Seminary in Louvain.

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• Father Godofredo first set foot on Philippine soil in October, 1909.  But Paco was not to be his first assignment.  In the morning of October 23, 1909, after spending his first night in the country at an old house on 2020 Herran [Pedro Gil Street], Father Godofredo boarded a train at the old wooden station in Paco for his first taste of missionary work: to teach in a school in Cavite.