GLIMPSES INTO THE HISTORY OF ST.ANN’S HIGH SCHOOL, MANGALURU

The torch lit in 1870 is still a living flame providing ‘Excelsior’ as it lights up fresh spots to venture into ; stressing as it were the endlessness of good education. Sr. Elias, the torch bearer the first three years handed over the growing responsibility to Sr. Aloysia in 1873, who cut out by the Master’s hand for an unusual venture, for a fully dedicated 36years proved herself an excellent educator with tremendous courage and an inborn farsightedness. Whoever worked with her absorbed and passed on the same dedication that the Apostolic Carmel institutions are still noted for wherever they are. Step by step they marched forward through the years as they still keep doing, dependent on a never failing Protector.

The history of St.Ann’s , as an educational institution, goes back to the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition, who were invited by Bishop Michael Antony to open a school for girls, which they did in 1859. The school was housed in an old building called the ‘Bungalow’. In 1866 a gable of the building gave way.

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