Our lady of guadalupe school laredo texas
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Our Mission “To further the Kingdom of God through the continuous formation of an individual’s faith and spirituality, intellect and the gift of ministry."
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by Robert Gonzalez - Dr.
Stan Green, Editor.
The date of the school’s founding is April 11, 1904. A two-story building as “solidly constructed” was erected by Luis Quintanilla, a local contractor, for $600.00.
As for the teachers, the Ursuline Sisters had been here since 1868, but in addition to their boarding school next to the International Bridge, were also in charge of the school at St.
Peter’s Church.
Our lady of guadalupe school laredo texas
Thus Bishop Verdaguer invited the Sisters of the Holy Ghost to come.
During that time hey served the “poorest of the poor”. Most of the time the sisters shared their lunch with the children who were sent to school without any lunch, and in most cases, without any shoes.
Despite teaching in a poor community, the number of both sisters and the students grew. At the end of their ninth year in 1913, t