The humble beginnings of the above educational institute by Franciscan Hospitallers Sisters go back to 56 AD when Saint Thomas one of the disciples of Jesus came to India and landed on the Coromandal Coast of South India and Later met by a martyr’s death. 14th Century, 1321 marks the arrival of four Franciscan fathers – father Jordan of France accompanied by three Italians fathers – Thomas of Tolentino, James of Paddua, and Peter of Vienna, and a lay person from Georgia (Russia) at Thane in Mumbai. They were invited to Bharuch Gujarat, (the only sea port known as Bary – gaza to Europeans ) all of them later became martyrs.Arrival of Vasco – de – Gama on May 20, 1498 brought Portuguese influence on Gujarat coast especially Daman and Diu. In 1542 Dominican and Franciscan missionaries began work in “Bombay Province.” It was Father Xavier who began the educational work in May 1542 and later Canonized in 1622 as Saint Francis Xavier after his death in 1552.