- St. Francis de Sales School
Affliated to CBSE
AFFL. NO: 123456
Location
Chattaradahalli
Enquiries
+91 78925 27610
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AFFL. NO: 123456
Chattaradahalli
+91 78925 27610
sfsschoolskp@gmail.com
St. Francis de Sales School, Chattaradahalli, is a CBSE-affiliated institution established in the academic year 2019–20 and managed by the Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales (MSFS Fathers), South-West India Province. With over 170 years of global experience in the field of education, the MSFS Fathers bring a legacy of excellence, discipline, and value-based learning to the rural heartland of Shivamogga district.
As a Christian Religious Minority institution governed under Article 30(1) of the Constitution of India, the school is committed to providing inclusive, holistic, and quality education to all children, helping them realise the full blossoming of their innate capabilities.
Knowledge • Love • Service
A holistic society of compassionately human, spiritually enlightened, intellectually awakened, professionally skilled, socially committed and culturally integrated persons based on the values as lived and taught by Jesus Christ and followed by Saint Francis de Sales.
To provide a conducive atmosphere for intellectual development To facilitate conviction based spiritual formation
To nurture a sense of the divine and transcendence
To imbue the virtues of gentleness, compassion and optimism
To impart authentic leadership training
To instil wholesome professional ethics
To encourage spans, games and work experience
To inculcate healthy food habits
To promote environmental consciousness
To extent internal education to an
To foster a caring and humane society meant to promote the marginalized and thus equip the younger generation with needed life skills to become:
At St. Francis de Sales School, education goes beyond textbooks. We aim to develop an integrated personality with a healthy mind and body, strength of character, moral integrity, and a spirit of service. We believe in opening the heart rather than merely the mind, helping students grow with confidence, conscience, and compassion.
Founded with a vision to shape responsible citizens for a progressive nation, St. Francis de Sales School began its journey with a strong belief that the destiny of the nation is shaped in classrooms. Since its inception, the school has steadily grown into a vibrant learning community with over 700 students, guided by dedicated educators and a committed management.
“You can catch more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a barrel of vinegar”
This school is dedicated to its heavenly patron St Francis de Sales (1567-1622). He was born on 21 August 1567 into a senatorial family in France where he was destined to work in government positions of authority. Instead, he felt called to become a priest in the Catholic Church. Within a few years of priestly ordination, Francis de Sales became the Bishop of Geneva, and became noted for his deep faith and his gentle approach to the Protestant Reformation at that time.
Through his missionary efforts, he won back hundreds of Protestant Christians to the Catholic fold. He authored two well-known theological classics: Introduction to the Devout Life and Treatise on the Love of God. As a Doctor of the Church, Francis de Sales is famous for his teachings on the Catholic doctrine. He is also known as the Gentleman Saint. He died on 28 December 1622, aged 55 years. He was canonized as a Saint in 1665.
The Missionaries of St Francis de Sales (MSFS), also known as the Fransalians, was founded in Annecy, France, on 24 October 1838, by Fr Mermier, under the patronage of St Francis de Sales. Fr Mermier’s idea was to bring about a spiritual renewal of his people by preaching parish missions. This special apostolate, in turn, gave rise to a community of preachers gathered around Fr Mermier.
The MSFS was founded in response to a desire of St Francis de Sales to found a society of missionary priests. Nearly two centuries after the Saint’s death, his successor in the See of Annecy broached the subject of such a society to Fr Mermier who had been considering the same idea.
Accordingly, Fr Mermier put the design into execution. In 1830, the institute was formed with La Feuillette as the site for the mother-house. It was blessed by the bishop in August 1837, and the congregation canonically instituted by him on 08 October 1838. Fr Mermier, the first superior general, offered himself and his companions to the Pope for foreign missions. In 1845, his offer was accepted by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, and the first missionaries set out for India.
The first batch of the MSFS landed in Pondicherry in September 1845, and they reached Visakhapatnam on 19 February 1846.
The Fransalians went to England in 1861. Since 1903, the congregation has been obliged to leave Savoy for England, where the juvenate, the novitiate and the house of studies are successfully carried on.
The South-West India Province was established in 1991, bifurcating the Visakhapatnam Province. SFS Public School, Ettumanoor, is run by this Province [SWIP].
“Education of the heart is the heart of education.”
Fr Peter Marie Mermier, the founder of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St Francis de Sales, was born in Annecy, France, in 1790. He entered the seminary in Annecy, and was ordained priest in 1813. He died in 1862, and Pope John Paul II raised him to the status of Servant of God.
Fr Mermier was interested in starting a congregation for preaching missions abroad. With the support of a few fellow-priests, he founded the MSFS Congregation which received canonical approval in 1838. For Fr Mermier, the Salesian spirituality was all-embracing and pastorally effective. Mermier felt proud of his native saint, SFS. He wanted the members of his congregation to be contemplatives in action and mystics of God’s love.
The invitation of Pope Gregory XVI to extend missionary activities to the Church in Asia and Africa was the answer for Mermier’s prayer and longing. The congregation was invited to take up pastoral activities in the Apostolic Vicariate of Visakhapatnam in 1846. The MSFS today work in 26 countries, starting with India in 1845 and ending with Poland in 2003.
Founded with a vision to shape responsible citizens for a progressive nation, St. Francis de Sales School began its journey with a strong belief that the destiny of the nation is shaped in classrooms. Since its inception, the school has steadily grown into a vibrant learning community with over 700 students, guided by dedicated educators and a committed management.
The school is guided by a committed and experienced management team from the MSFS congregation:
Provincial
Councillor – Education
Manager & Administrator
Principal
