On this day, Loreto House school was opened in the city.
Mother M. Delphine Hart and her group of seven Loreto nuns and five postulates had arrived in Kolkata from Ireland on December 29, 1841, landing at Babughat.
They took up residence in “a splendid three-storeyed mansion, Number 5, Middleton Row, a noble building, spacious, airy...”
The house had a distinguished lineage. Among earlier occupants of the building were Henry Vansittart, Governor of Bengal (1760-64), Sir Elijah Impey, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Kolkata (1774-82) and from 1824, Bishop Heber, the second Anglican Bishop of Kolkata.
Loreto House school opened with 60 students. The nuns also took class at the orphanage at Murgihatta Cathedral. Construction of St Thomas’ Church on the same premises as the school had begun on November 11, 1841.
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