The Congregation of the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Conception’s India branch was established in Goa in 1886 and spread from there to the various parts of the country. A Franciscan Hospitaller Sister of the Immaculate Conception (FHIC) is a person, consecrated and dedicated to follow Jesus Christ and serve her brethren, especially the more needy. She commits herself to witness hospitality, the specific charism of the congregation, which is reflected in the multiple forms of service. As Franciscans, we follow the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi, whose ideal was to live according to the Gospel. These few simple words were his rule: “When Lord gave me brethren, no one taught me what I should do, but the Lord himself revealed to me, that we should live according to the Holy Gospel.†(testament of St. Francis, 16 & 17). Being born and formed by the Gospel, the Franciscan vocation is open to all categories of persons and all form of activity. Foundation and early years (1910 -1932) The Sister’s entry to Bandra were the design of Providence. It was at the feet of Our Lady of the Mount that our Pioneers started a school and named it “Colegio da Imaculada Conceicao″; but the people right from the start kept calling it “Mount Mary Convent″.The Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters aim at imparting a good all-round education. It is “a permanent and dynamic process that aims at helping the student to fulfill herself as a person responding to the challenges of her human vocation and identifying herself progressively with the New Man, in her triple relationship with God, with the others and the worldâ€.We aim at the integral and personal formation of the students by giving them an education, which is morally, physically and mentally sound. In keeping with the national aspirations, we help the student to become mature, spiritually oriented persons of character, actively useful and worthy citizens of India.
