St. Mary's Higher Secondary School, Dindigul

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St. Mary's Higher Secondary School, Dindigul


Location
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Dindigul , Tamil Nadu , 624 001 India
Coordinates	Coordinates: 10°21′46″N 77°58′26″E / 10.36278°N 77.97389°E / 10.36278; 77.97389
Information
Type	Private primary and secondary school
Motto	To Know the Truth
Religious affiliation(s)	Catholicism
Denomination	Jesuits
Established	1850; 171 years ago (1850)
Founder	Jesuits
Grades	K-12
Gender	Boys
Enrollment	8,000+
Language	Tamil English
Website	www.maduraijesuits.org

St. Mary's Higher Secondary School is a private Catholic primary and secondary school for boys located in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India. The school was founded by the Jesuits in 1850.

About the school[]

St. Mary's occupies a large area in the heart of Dindigul, five minutes from the bus stand. The Hostel is just opposite the school gate. The environment of the school includes green, spacious grounds and multiple sports fields. The school contains numerous houses: Main Building or Clock House (built in the British period), Jubilee Hall Block, Central Stage with staff rooms, offices, and library, and Fathers House. In 2010 an Engineering Class Block was added.

Besides sports, extracurriculars include drama, handwriting competition, poetry, music, NSS, NCC and NCC (Airwing), JRC, Scouting, and National Green Secretaries for Students.

Branches[]

Admission to 6th and 9th Standard is by Entrance Exam.

St. Mary's Higher Secondary School provides four branches for class XI & XII: Computer Science, Biology (with maths and physics), Accounting & Commerce, and Vocational Group (EMR, Textile, EDA, Sports).

Generally all students of St. Mary's School pass the X (SSLC) exam. What branch they continue in depends on their marks in this exam. Classes XI and XII have room for additional students but the earlier classes are filled mainly by Christians and by the poor, since it was for them that the school was founded.

Jesuit Madurai Province[]

Fr. Sebasti Raj

The Madurai Province includes the entire State of Tamil Nadu. It is led by Fr. Sebasti L. Raj, S.J., whose office is in Dindigul.^{[citation needed]}

Some of more prominent institutions of the Jesuit Madurai Province are:
St. Joseph's School and St. Joseph's College, Tiruchy (1844), St. Mary's School, Dindigul (1850), St. Mary's School, Madurai (1855), St. Xavier's School (1880) and College (1923), Playamkottai, St. Francis Xavier School, Tuticorin (1884), Loyola College, Chennai (1925), De Britto School, Devakottai (1943), and St. Xavier's College of Education, Palayamkottai (1950). The Jesuits run 15 colleges and 11 secondary schools in Tamil Nadu.^{[citation needed]}

History of Madurai Province[]

Fathers' Home

Why would the Jesuits of Tamil Nadu call their Province the Madurai Province? The reasons are historical. Incidentally quite a few Indian Jesuit provinces have names of cities like Bombay, Patna, Jamshedpur and Ranchi. Others – like Andhra, Kerala and Gujarat – have the names of States.^{[citation needed]}

Madurai Province is the oldest Province in India.^{[citation needed]} Jesuit presence in this land of Tamils began since the times of St Francis Xavier. He arrived in Goa on 6 May 1542 and, after four months of stay in Goa, travelled to Tamil Nadu and worked in Manapad, Tuticorin, Madurai and Madras-Mylapore, preaching the good news of Jesus and founding Catholic communities.

After Francis Xavier came Antony Criminali (1520–1549) who was later killed by the Badagas in a raid near Vedalai, Ramnad District, Tamil Nadu. Henri Henriques (1520–1600), Goncalo Fernandez (1541–1621), Robert de Nobili (1577–1656) and others were sent from Goa to the Tamil region to continue the work of evangelisation

References[]

External links[]

Saint Mary's Higher Secondary School, Dindigul at Facebook

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