It is sponsored by the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The Nuns of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus started with a small classroom of 15 children.

One of them, Pilar, became nun of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus order.

The Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus were founded in Spain that same year by two sisters who had joined the congregation shortly before.

Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus/ Ancillae Cordis Jesu (ACJ)

In 1926, the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus came to Philadelphia from Rome at the invitation of Cardinal Dennis Dougherty.

In 1877, under the authority of the Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo, the sisters took their vows and founded the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus are one of many religious communities that share "a historical connection to the spirituality of the Sacred Heart".

Saint Caterina Volpicelli (1839-1894), a nun and foundress of the Congregation of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was his maternal aunt.

The Archbishop of Dublin at the time, John Charles McQuaid, invited the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to take over the running of the schools.

In 1886, receiving a Decree of Praise from the Vatican, the sisters became the Institute of Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus with Raphaela at its head.

The school was founded in 1949 by the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in response to requests from United States Air Force families seeking an education for their children.

The school had the help of four religious sisters from the order of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and two lay teachers who made up the first faculty at the new school.

Beautiful eclectic building in which Gothic and Romanesque details predominate built between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as a votive gift from a wealthy family in the order of nuns called Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.