St. Scholastica\'s Girls\' School & College

About Us

t was the year 1883 when the Bangladeshi mission of Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions was born. It all began with a group of five valiant missionaries who, accompanied by our Foundress, Mother Euphrasie Barbier set out to answer the call of the Benedictine Monk, Bishop Ballsieper, for the presence and work of Missionary Sisters in his diocese.Euphrasie Barbier was born into a modest family in the west of France. It was into this family of ‘the industrious lower middle...

t was the year 1883 when the Bangladeshi mission of Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions was born. It all began with a group of five valiant missionaries who, accompanied by our Foundress, Mother Euphrasie Barbier set out to answer the call of the Benedictine Monk, Bishop Ballsieper, for the presence and work of Missionary Sisters in his diocese.Euphrasie Barbier was born into a modest family in the west of France. It was into this family of ‘the industrious lower middle class’ that was traditionally hard-working, and had a respect for values, which were solidly based in the Catholic faith, that Euphrasie Barbier was born.Euphrasie was not only influenced by her family and her immediate environment, but also by the ecclesiastical and religious environment of the time.Euphrasie Barbier gave of herself unsparingly, as she prepared for the great journey, which began in February 1883, and which led her, in the first instance, to the East, taking with her the team of five Sisters assigned for the foundation in Chittagong.