History & local legend
Nativity BVM High School stands on Lawton’s Hill in Pottsville, where it opened in 1955. One of its best-known campus stories concerns a visiting priest who received help in the third-floor library during the 1970s.
The priest was searching for a book when a nun approached and found it for him. After returning downstairs, he mentioned the helpful librarian to the principal. The response surprised him: the nun who had worked in the library had recently died.
Someone produced a yearbook photograph, and the priest identified the woman in it as the same person who had just assisted him upstairs.
