Mary Villa is a large building situated at the top of Church Street and has spacious grounds attached to it. Handbook of Jamaica, 1883 

Father Jaeckel's Mary Villa College, 1877 - 1888

In The Jamaican Stage: 1655-1900, (University of Massachusetts Press, 1992) West Indian playwright and historian, Errol Hill, wrote with approval of the activities of Father Jaeckel and the stage performances of the students of Mary Villa College:

This Gleaner item shows the amicable inter-denominational relationships at that time:

This trait of his [John Radcliffe's] nature was also exemplified in

the outward acts of his daily life. 

He would embrace the late Father Dupont wherever they met to the

disappointment of those who imagined they would pass each other

with a scowl. Along with Father Dupeyron he used to go to the

function of "double marriages" considered necessary to be performed

at the time, and on these occasions the people would say 'There go

the Pope and John Knox!'

I have not yet been able to find many references to the College during 1882 and 1883, and none to any entertainments.

 But we also congratulate the country on having suoh a useful citizen as the Rev. Jaeckel. How much must it not stimulate the ambition of a boy to obtain success in his studies, if the end of the year's course is crowned with such an exciting distribution of prizes and what a long lasting impression must not be made on the sensitive soul of a boy by a public exhibition of the school in such a brilliant light

. . . A FRIEND OF ALL PROGRESS,  December 27, 1878.

(in Daily Gleaner, December 28, 1878)

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