Steadfast in duty for 170 years

Headmistresses (Sisters) and teachers from Penang and Kulim Convents at Cameron Highlands Convent in the 1970s. Photo courtesy of Miss Cumareson (second from left) who later became Headmistress of St. Anne’s Convent Kulim.

AS Easter approaches, the Infant Jesus Sisters’ convent schools in Malaysia remember the advent of the first three French nuns on Easter Monday in 1852, after a long and treacherous journey of four months at sea.

The schools which were originally called the St Maur Sisters’ Schools still make up the largest group of schools at present times, consisting of a total number of 56 primary and secondary schools.