Sacred Heart Canossian College

Sacred Heart Canossian College (Chinese: 嘉諾撒聖心書院; abbr: SHCC) is a Roman Catholic girls' school in Pokfulam, Chi Fu Fa Yeun, west Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Founded in 1860, the school currently serves some 1,400 students and 70 teaching staff. Sacred Heart Canossian College was founded in 1860 by the Canossian Sisters of Charity. It was Hong Kong's first 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...