Anniversary of Founder Cornelia Connelly’s Death

18 April, 2026 marks the 147th anniversary of the death of Society founder Cornelia Connelly. On Easter Friday, April 18, 1879, she died at the age of 70 at the Convent of the Holy Child St. Leonards-on-Sea, England in the company of her Sisters. Their memory of her, moments after her death, was an expression […]

Society Marks 179th Anniversary

Feasts of St Edward and St Teresa, October 2025 October 13 and 15 are very important dates to the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. Our founder Cornelia Connelly and three other women, who became Sisters of the Holy Child, had left for Derby, England on October 13, the feast of St. Edward, exactly six […]