About the Institution
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. Responding to the appeal of Bishop Frederick Rooker, seven Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres, set sail from Saigon and arrived in Dumaguete, southern Philippines on October 29, 1904. The good Bishop counted on them to nurture the faith of the predominantly Catholic population recently freed from 377 years of Spanish rule but which was then prey to the intense proselytizing campaign of American Protestants as well as to the patriotic influences of the Philippine Independent Church. As educators, 249 Sisters serve more than 59,000 students in 35 schools; 85 Sisters in the Health Ministry serve 63,000 patients in 11 medical institutions; 59 Sisters are full-time pastoral workers, catechizing 78,000 children and adults, caring for street children, lepers, minority tribes, and the poor in the rural and urban areas; and the 91 retired Sisters support the active Sisters spiritually by their prayers and the offering of their pains. 62 Filipina Sisters are missionaries in 13 foreign countries.

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