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Baradene College of the Sacred Heart 1909-2009
by Margaret McClure
Publisher
Baradene College
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Project details
The French Society of the Sacred Heart opened Sacré Coeur (later called Baradene) in Auckland in 1909. The school introduced girls to a distinctive style of European Catholicism: a world of curtseys, quince tarts, Latin motets, processions and tableaux, long periods of silence and exhilarating games of cache. Pupils ate fruit with a knife and fork, heard Don Quixote read aloud at dinner, and encountered Dante's Inferno in the classroom.
This story describes the Sacred Heart tradition of education for girls, and the transformation of school life after Vatican II. Later came the shock of a male principal, controversies over integration and the boarding school, and the continuing expansion of opportunities for girls.
This book was commissioned for Baradene's centenary year in 2009. It is a stylish account, finely illustrated and enlivened by the individual experience of schoolgirls, religious sisters and lay teachers.
