Our Origin

      In the small village of Levesville-la-Chenard in the diocese of Chartres, France, Father Louis Chauvet, the parish priest, founded the Daughters of the School in 1696, with the help of Mademoiselle Marie Anne de Tilly, who trained the first members: Mère Marie Micheau and Mère Barbe Foucault, 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 Chartres , who gave it his name. The death of the founder on June 21, 1710 did not impede the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres from spreading to different corners of the globe, to all the continents except Antarctica.

      The first Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres 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.

OUR PATRON, ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE

      Paul, whose Jewish name was Saul, was born between 5 and 10 A.D. at Tarsus, Cilicia. Educated in Jewish and non-Jewish studies, he spoke Hebrew and Greek and became an ardent Pharisee, to the point of persecuting the Christians. His phenomenal conversion and total offering of his life to Christianity made him the greatest missionary of the Christian Church. He is the patron of Paulinian Schools.