OUR ORIGIN

  In the small village of Levesville-la-Chenard in the diocese of Chartes, France, Father Louis Chauvet, the parish priest, founded the Daughters of the School in 1696, with the help of Medemoiselle Marie Anne de Tilly, who trained the first members: Mere Marie Michau and Mere Barbe Focault, to teach children and to care for the sick in their homes. The growing institution was entrusted in 1708 to Bishop Paul Godet des Marais of Chartes, who gave it his name. The death of the founder in 1710 did no impede the Sisters of St.Paul of Chartes from spreading to different corners of the globe, to all the continents except Antartica.

  The first Sisters of St.Paul of Chartes in the Philippines opened the first Paulinian School in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental in 1904. The first Novitiate in Malate, Manila, opened in 1911, was transferred to Quezon City in 1931.