Incarnate Word Academy (Houston)
The Incarnate Word Academy is one of the Catholic Roman Church supported girls' school in Houston (Texas). It is the city's first permanent Catholic school. It is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston .
history
At the request of the Bishop of Texas, John M. Odin , in 1852 the Sisters of the Corporal Word and the Sacred Sacrament , an order founded in Lyon in 1625, came to the United States to undertake religious education duties. The sisters established their first school in Brownsville in 1853 and a second in Victoria in 1866.
A third school was opened in Houston in 1873. Matron M. Gabriel Dillon and two sisters of the Congregation came to the city at the request of local pastor Joseph Querat and began teaching girls in makeshift rooms in the old Franciscan monastery on Franklin Street. On January 3, 1874, a school building was moved to its current location on Crawford Street. In 1878 the school received approval from the state of Texas to issue its own degrees.
The three-storey building encloses an inner courtyard. Accommodation options for boarding school students emerged a short time later. In 1899 an auditorium was built and in 1905 the steady growth of the school required an additional three-story building. In 1948 a new building replaced the original parts of the building.
250 female students are currently being taught at the school.
Web links
- Incarnate Word Academy (English)
Individual evidence
- Historical marker of the Texas Historical Commission (established 1972)
- ↑ School profile ( Memento of the original from December 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 104 kB). Incarnate Word Academy
