The Sisters of Mary School

The Sisters of Mary Congregation was founded by Msgr. Aloysius Schwartz, an American diocesan priest now known as Venerable Aloysius Schwartz, in 1964 in Busan, South Korea to provide free educational and vocational welfare for the underprivileged children/youth, medical care to the sick and the dying, and shelter service to the homeless and helpless. In 1983, Fr. Al, as he is fondly called by many, was a recipient of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding, an award given in recognition for his exemplary works of alleviating the plight of the orphans, abandoned and the vagrants of Korea. During the ceremony, he met Jaime Cardinal Sin, the then Archbishop of Manila, who invited him to set up his Religious Community and charity programs in the Philippines. In 1985, seeing the urgent need of the poor and with total confidence in Gods providence, Fr. Al founded the Sisters of Mary at Sta. Mesa, Manila, thus expanding his charity programs in the Philippin...