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The Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Charles, Missouri is an independent Catholic elementary school and the first of many Sacred Heart schools in the United States. Founded in 1818 by Rose Philippine Duchesne, a missionary Religious of the Sacred Heart who was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1988, the Academy was a school for girls until 1972. Since then, it has educated both boys and girls on its 10-acre campus. Today, the Academy is one of the largest independent, private elementary schools in the St. Louis metro area, and one of 24 schools in the Network of Sacred Heart Schools in the U.S. and Canada—all sharing a common philosophy of education in the Five Goals of Sacred Heart Education: Faith, Intellectual Values, Social Action, Community and Personal Growth. ==History== In 1817, Bishop of Louisiana Louis DuBourg invited Madeleine Sophie Barat and the Society of the Sacred Heart, a group of religious women educating girls in post-revolutionary France, to come to America and establish schools on the frontier. Mother Barat’s acceptance signaled the beginning of the international mission of the Society of the Sacred Heart. After their voyage across the Atlantic and upriver to St. Louis, Philippine Duchesne and four other Sacred Heart nuns traveled 25 miles further to reach their destination in the remote village of St. Charles. There they began the first free school west of the Mississippi River in a log cabin which would, at times, house as many as 20 day students, three boarders and the nuns. Their difficult first year prompted Philippine to request that Bishop DuBourg move them closer to St. Louis. Florissant, across the Missouri River, was the next site for their mission and there the boarding school grew. In 1828, at the invitation of the Jesuits, the nuns returned to St. Charles. The brick convent school they erected in 1835 remains in use, along with additions made in subsequent years. After Philippine’s death in 1852, enrollment grew at the Academy and other Sacred Heart schools across the country. By the mid-20th century, a number of Sacred Heart schools closed. Because of its history as the first foundation and because it is the location of the tomb of Philippine Duchesne (who had been beatified in 1940), the Academy in St. Charles remained open. In 1972, the high school closed and the elementary school became coeducational. In 2006, the seventh and eighth grades were divided into single gender classes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Academy of the Sacred Heart, St. Charles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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