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PAX! WELCOME TO THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR 2006-2007

This year will be a very significant and exciting time for all of us.  We shall begin preparations for our GRAND CELEBRATION commemorating

100 Years of Missionary Benedictine
Presence in the Philippines: 1906-2006

Five brave German Benedictine Sisters landed at Manila bay on September 14, 1906, Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.  They were: Mo. M. Ferdinanda Hoelzer, OSB as Sister Prioress, Sisters Petronilla Keller, Crescentia Veser, Winfrieda Mueller and novice Alexia Ruedenauer.

Their coming was in response to the appeal for help of Monsignor Ambrosius Agius, OSB, Apostolic delegate to the Philippines.

"Hundreds of thousands of children grow up without any instructions
and thousands upon thousands have to die without the holy sacraments ..."

Three months later on December 3, 1906 the sisters were able to set up a classroom in a small house along Moriones Street in Tondo.  The enrolment was eight (six girls and two boys from well-to-do families) and some fifty (50) girls and boys in the "Free School."

St. Scholastica's College was born!

More children came.  The sisters transferred to a bigger place in San Marcelino Street a year later (1907) and finally to Singalong in 1914, where we are at present.  From fifty-eight (58) pupils, we have grown today to some 6,800 students.

This school year will be a year of looking back and thanking God for all the blessings of the past.  It shall also be a time to appreciate and assess our present missionary service and look forward to the future.

Our school's theme for this year is

100 Years of Scholastican Education
Excellence As Our Benedictine Service to the Community
        with Issue Focus on Jubilee, Culture of Peace and Care for Mother Earth

May the Lord bring to perfection the new mission we are about to begin.  (cf RB Prol. 4) n

  
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  ST. SCHOLASTICA'S COLLEGE

2560 Leon Guinto Street, Malate, Manila, Philippines  ::  (632) 524-7686

For inquiry, comments and suggestions, please  send e-mail to sscinfo@ssc.edu.ph