St Joseph's Convent High School, Mumbai

505, Manuel Gonsalves Rd, Bandra West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400050

Forming young hearts and minds to be upright and responsible citizens who love God, themselves and their neighbours, especially the less fortunate. Inspiration: The Cross To experience for themselves And to manifest to others God’s tender love, the Daughters of the Cross will contemplate Jesus, the humble servant of redemptive love toiling through the streets of Jerusalem, bearing his cross. cross They will contemplate him on Calvary in the company of Mary, his Mother so as to understand the language of the Cross, which is folly to those who do not believe, but to us is seen as God’s power to save.

Shortly before the ceremony that was to inaugurate the new Congregation, Jeanne and a companion saw a large black cross surmounted by a white crown, clearly outlined in the summer sky over the courtyard between the Carmelite convent and the school. She understood its wordless message and took it as the emblem of her Congregation together with God’s promise to Constantine.

Ever since, Daughters of the Cross have worn the simple cross surmounted by a crown. For many years this was fashioned from ebony and ivory but in more recent times it has been made of silvered metal. Sisters who have made final profession also have a miniature of the cross engraved on the ring which they wear.