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Since 1984, the Sisters of the Holy Cross have directed their apostolate more toward pastoral and social activities. In Manchester, New Hampshire, Holy Cross Family Learning Center offers English as a Second Language (ESL) for beginners and intermediates for the growing immigrant and refugee population of the Greater Manchester. [11]
Leocadie attended the local parish school and spent most of her early life at home taking care of her family. From 1833 to 1837 she went to a boarding school in Laval. [1] She joined Father Basile Moreau in 1841 to found the Marianite Sisters of Holy Cross at Le Mans. Missionary Sisters were sent to Indiana in 1843 and to Lower Canada in 1847 ...
The Sisters of Holy Cross motherhouse is located in Notre Dame, Indiana. They are distinct from the Sisters of the Holy Cross Menzingen , a teaching congregation founded in Switzerland in 1844. Early history
In Bugembe and Wanyange, two villages of the Jinja Diocese, a primary school and secondary were opened: Holy Cross Primary and Holy Cross Lakeview Secondary respectively. In 1998, Lakeview made world news when United States President Bill Clinton landed in a helicopter on the school's compound for discussions with Ugandan President Museveni .
In 1844, the sisters opened their first school in Bertrand, Michigan, about six miles from Notre Dame; it was a boarding academy with pre-collegiate grades. In 1855 the school moved to its present site, under the leadership of Mother Angela Gillespie .
The Sisters of the Holy Cross started Holy Cross Girls' High School near the Holy Rosary Church in 1951 as a kindergarten with two students. The next year it became a primary school. Later it was accredited by the Dhaka Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education as a secondary school serving students through class 10.
In 1853, she felt called to enter the order of the Sisters of Mercy.She went to Notre Dame, Indiana, to bid farewell to her brother who was there engaged in his studies for the priesthood, and there she met Edward Sorin, Provincial Superior of the Congregation of Holy Cross in the United States, through whose influence she was led to cast her lot with this small and struggling community.
These are secondary schools founded and sponsored by one of the four Catholic congregations of Holy Cross which trace their origins to the Venerable Father Basil Moreau, CSC; namely: The Congregation of Holy Cross (CSC) priests and brothers of Holy Cross; The Marianites of Holy Cross (MSC) (Le Mans, France and New Orleans, Louisiana)