Sacred Heart school organizes a march to celebrate their 125 years

During this 2014-2015 academic year, the Sagrado Corazón de Dénia school lives immersed in the celebration of its 125 years as an educational center in Dénia. Among the events to commemorate this important date, they have organized, next Sunday, March 1, a march of gratitude to the congregation for its educational and health work in Dénia.

The march will begin at 11: 30 hours from the Plaza of the Constitution and will run through the streets of Dénia until the recent street Germans Carmelites, in the Torrecremada.

With this march, the Sacred Heart school wants to gather all the people who during these 125 years have been part, in some way, of the Carmelite community. Teachers, students and alumni, parents, workers ... everyone is invited to participate in this thank you march

During the trip some of the places where the Carmelite Sisters worked and exerted important work in the education and health sectors will be remembered.

The history of the center in Dénia

The history of the Sacred Heart school in Denia is very linked to two benefactors of the city, ladies and Maria Enriqueta Carbonell Morand Morand. Since they knew the intention of the Jesuit Rafael Doménech to establish a center of Christian education for girls showed their support for the idea.

In November 1889, the then Provincial Superior of Levante, Sister Carmen Romaguera, informs the mayor by letter his intention to found a college. That same month the school opened a total of 21 girls of different ages in the same house Enriqueta Morand.

During the first years of the 125th century, the school considerably increased the number of female students, reaching 1910. In XNUMX they settled on Loreto Street, and the number of female students could further increase. But with the arrival of the Civil War, the educational community was forced to vacate the school due to the risk of looting and riots.

After the war they returned to settle where they were until the years 60 finally moved to the place in the school today is located.

Currently the school houses students from the 3 16 to years, and facilities have moved to a new building on the grounds.