Our history
Even in the late nineteenth century, in our country, education was a citizen service that no administration was taking seriously or dedicated enough resources to it, and until the second third of the 20th century the shameless saying of " to spend more hungry than a schoolmaster ".
There were very few children of working families who could attend class, or stopped going because they had to go to work at the factories in order to help the family at any age.
For girls the picture was, if it does not do the same, or worse, with the difference that they did not usually go "to study": they were "sewing," where they were taught to sew, embroider and maybe a I know of "domestic economy", but to read and write, very little ...
This situation is reflected by Monsignor Josep Giribets, a predecessor of the parish in the years of the establishment of the Franciscan community in our town, when he wrote down, in the Work Book of the Parish: "Seeing how neglected was education of the girls of this Parish, as I had occasion to observe when preparing them for the first communions [...] I resolved to communicate to His Excellency Mr. Ilmo Bishop of the diocese my project to establish in this a school of girls directed by Religiosas ".
And this was how, by the end of the century, many families from Vilassar de Mar wanted their daughters to have a good education, they asked Mr. Rector Mn. Josep Giriberts was responsible for it.
Taking advantage of the Pastoral visit that the bishop Urquinaona made in our parish on December 21, 1980, the priest and the petition, and Sa Ecelencia ordered that religious and municipal representatives be agreed upon in order to "establish in this town, some religious or a religious institute dedicated to the teaching of girls."