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Saint Mary Eufracia Montessori            

SMEM AT A GLANCE

     Saint Mary Eufracia Montessori (SMEM) was founded in 1995 by a well-respected family in this community but the management was later transferred to a new administration at the start of school year 1999. Since then,  SMEM  strengthened  its way to put its mission and vision into a reality thereby providing affordable and quality education to the student populace of the City of Batangas.
      At  a span of more than ten years of giving commendable learning skills and much needed moral values to its young learners, SMEM through the efforts of its energetic and responsible faculty and staff members,  provided to each pre-elementary and grade school pupils the opportunities to develop at his or her own rate of growth to his/her fullest potential physically, emotionally, morally and intellectually until they graduated and promoted to secondary levels.    
     Since then, the School has imparted to  thousands of students a learning environment and valuable knowledge in the fields of English, Science, Mathematics, Arts and other skills which eventually contributed to their ultimate potentials and thereby became a firm base in developing their values, life skills, and creativity necessary for a successful and productive life.
 
      

SAINT MARY EUPHRASIA PELLETIER

    “God is  like a compassionate Shepherd”.  That was the Good News which Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier (from which St. Mary Eufracia Montessori derived its name) strongly believed. Her courage was so profound in line with this mission: To love and respect the dignity of each person as a child of God.   
 History told that in the year  1815 a young French woman named Rose Virginie Pelletier, joined the Sisters of the Refuge, an innovative group of women founded in France by Father John Eudes in the year 1641.  These women provided homes to homeless women who were considered social outcasts. 
     She also formed a Contemplative branch of the community, closely linked to the apostolic Sisters through prayer. With the blessing of the Church, amid some painful misunderstandings of some of the hierarchy and many of her own Sisters of the Refuge, Sr. Mary Euphrasia formed the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in France in 1835. She was an ingenious and practical leader who attracted the assistance of other dedicated women and many spiritualy-like devoted persons. Rose Virginie took the name of "Sister Mary Euphrasia." She brought new life to a community that had been destroyed by the French Revolution. At age 29 she was elected Mother Superior. She founded a contemplative community, then called "The Magdalens," and today known as the "Contemplative Sisters of the Good Shepherd." 

      Mary Euphrasia was herself transformed by her fidelity to the people of God. The Church declared this fidelity holy, she was declared a saint in the year 1940. St. Mary Euphrasia probably said on that day, "I couldn't have done it without you." In fact,  she always would say this in her many encouraging letters sent to the sisters ministering around the world. 

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Batangas City, Philippines