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Sacred Heart Canossian College

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    • Sacred Heart Canossian College 2, Chi Fu Close, Pok Fu Lam, HK
  • Telephone Numbers:
    • (852) 2550-6111
    • (852) 2875-3242 (fax)
  • Official Website: [1]
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Sacred Heart Canossian College was founded in 1860 by the Canossian Sisters of Charity. It was Hong Kong's second girls' school. The school was founded by the Canossian Sisters of Charity; the foundress of the order was Saint Magdalen of Canossa. Saint Magdalen was quoted as saying "Canossian educators should try to handle each one in the way she is made, valuing the benefit of education in the formation of the heart." - a founding and continuing principle of the school today. Magdalena of Canossa was canonized on 2 October 1988 and became St. Magdalen of Canossa; her feast day is celebrated on 8 May. The Canossian Sisters of Charity is a Roman Catholic religious order founded by the Marchioness Magdalen of Canossa, later canonized as Saint Magdalen of Canossa, of the House of Canossa from Tuscany, Italy.^[1]

In 1960 the school's name changed to the Sacred Heart School (after the Sacred Heart of Jesus), and in 1960, to its current name, Sacred Heart Canossian College, in order to differentiate from other schools in the territory bearing the same name. Originally the school educated girls from aged 3 to 18, it had a kindergarten section, a primary school section and a secondary school section. At that time the site covered a stretch of land that spans between Robinson Road and Caine's Road. In 1981 the secondary section of the school moved to Pokfulam but the kindergarten and primary sections of the school remain on the original site on Robinson Road. In 1988 roughly half of the land was sold to developers of high rise residential buildings. The kindergarten and primary sections moved to temporary accommodations until the new buildings on Caine's Road became ready for moving-in in 1992. Since 1981 the secondary school took the name Sacred Heart Canossian College while the kindergarten and primary sections were renamed Sacred Heart Canossian School.^[1]

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