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It began in 1906

Since then three and a half centuries have passed. Three and a half centuries of history, designing a long series of events, each calling us to pursue a moment when all seemed lost, and each one giving birth to something new in response to the new challenges of its age.

Fr. John Peter Medaille, founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph

John Peter Medaille was born in Carcassonne on 6 October 1906. He was a student of the Jesuits at the college of his native city, and joined his teachers by entering the Jesuit novitiate at Toulouse in 1926. Contemporary within a few years of two canonised saints, he had the advantage of living for a time with both of them.

As parish priest in the town of Le Puy in France, Fr. Medaille came in contact with young girls and widows who were touched by the misery around them, and who at the same time desired greatly to give themselves in total dedication to the Lord. Recognising in them the action of the Holy Spirit, pointing to the birth and the need of active religious women in society, he asked them to pray and to wait, and to continue living according to the desires awakened in them.

What began there is what reached Sagar. The school is the same work in another century and another country.