sentences:  Under the leadership of Brother John McMahon, O.S.F., and Brother Vincent Hayes, O.S.F., a group of six Brothers, sent from the monastery in Roundstone, County Galway, soon arrived and opened St. Francis Monastery on Butler Street and St. Francis Academy (now the site of St. Francis College), the first Catholic school in Brooklyn.The monastery served as the base of operations for the Brothers as they spread out over the City of Brooklyn in their ministry of education.Over the subsequent decades, the Brothers staffed local parochial schools.