Our foundress, Mother Brigida Morello, was a great educationist who founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of Mary Immaculate in the year 1649 in Northern Italy. She realized that through the medium of education she could reach the masses and train them to b e God-fearing, honest and genuine people. It is from her teachings that we have today our Ursuline Philosophy of Education.
The Ursuline Sisters of Mary Immaculate, who came to India as missionaries in November, 1934, belong to a three-century-old Congregation which was founded in 1649 in Piacenza, Northern Italy. They purchased a plot of land on the shores of the Arabian Sea in the quiet town of Cannanore on the west coast of India.
This was the epicenter of the Mission which started sending out fervent workers into God's vineyard to teach, to bless, to heal and to make whole, the people around who were in need of care and an uplift in their lives.   Read More