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HISTORY
OF CANOSSA CONVENT
Canossa Convent was the first Canossian community directly dependant on
the Diocese of Singapore and the last before the Japanese Occupation in
1941. It was the outcome of Rev. Father Stephen Lee's dream of having an
orphanage and a private Chinese school for the education of the poor.
Subsequently when the British surrendered to the
Japanese in February 1942, the chapel was used as their office and the
rest of the building was converted into a hospital for their wounded
soldiers. The sisters and orphans had to evacuate and they were sent to
Fiji Village, Bahau in Negri Sembilan where they spent more than two years
until the Japanese surrendered. This historical surrender took place in
the parlour of Canossa Convent.
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