EARLY BEGINNINGS

Since its foundation in 1972, the sisters have embraced primarily the apostolate of evangelization through education and catechesis. The seeds of the Congregation’s apostolate took root in Tandang Sora, Quezon City, where the first three sisters started to live and prayed together in a temporary residential house owned by the sister’s relative and taught catechism to the families in the neighborhood.

As early as April 1974, the sisters spread out to the province of Pangasinan and administered the Dominican school known as Holy Rosary Academy in the town of Manaoag [now College of Letran] during the term of Very Rev. Fr. Rogelio Alarcon, O.P. as the Prior Provincial of the Dominican Province of the Philippines [DPP]. The school is attached to the famous Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of “Manaoag” [now called the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag]. It is well-known to be miraculous and pilgrims from different parts of the country continuously flock to ask God’s favors through her intercession. Being popularly known also as “the virgin who calls”, the sisters have prayed to her to send more vocations to the budding community. Thus, it opened the avenues for vocations to flourish and the convent became a fertile seedbed for more vocations to join.