St. Teresa's College Ernakulam

The College is named after St. Teresa of Avila. Though a Saint of the 16th Century, St. Teresa is a model for youth in any age and time. Her teachings form the basis of Catholic Spirituality. She lived the life of a contemplative nun and later was named as the “Doctor of the Church”. Allison Peers, who has translated her life says of her, “Her purely human qualities and gifts, the saintliness of her life, the naturalness and candour of her manner and style, these are some of the reasons why her name is not only graven upon the enduring marble of history but taken on the lips of generation after generation with reverence and love” St. Teresa’s College is the result of a vision, the seeds of which was planted by Sr.Teresa of St. Rose of Lima, when she started St.Teresa’s School in 1887. She had come in response to the call of Rt. Rev. Dr. Leonard Mellaono the Carmelite Archbishop of Verapoly, to start the first school for girls in the state and to found a Congregation of Religious Sisters. She was a great educationalist and a humane social worker. Unfortunately she died in 1902 in a train accident when she was 43 years of old. However her dream saw fulfillment when the College started with a small batch of 41 students in 1925.