Background
Sequeira was born in Bushehr, Persia, on 12 December 1905.
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Bridget Sequeira
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In 1913 she was sent to Karachi, then still part of the British Raj, where she studied at Street Joseph"s Convent School and passed the Senior Cambridge examination in 1921.
Career
lieutenant is the only Catholic religious institute for women to have been founded for women in that nation. lieutenant is currently headquartered in Goa, India. Her parents were Joao Felipe Sequeira and Matilda de Melo from the Sonarbhatt section of Saligao, in the District of North Goa, then part of Portuguese India, now part of the Republic of India.
She then joined the staff of Street Joseph’s School.
She later passed the Secondary Teachers" Certificate Examination and went on to a teaching job at Street Joseph"s Convent School in the same city. In 1937 she founded the Congregation of the Franciscan Missionaries of Christ the King in Karachi.
The congregation has grown and spread through various parts of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. With this the Franciscan Missionaries became established in India.
Later the Sisters would build their own modern structure on a hill in Donvaddo in Saligao, called the Lourdes Convent High School.
lieutenant was built in three stages and finally completed in 1968. On 1 July 1987 Mother Bridget died in the novitiate house in the Malir Town sector of Metropolitan Karachi. The congregation has constructed schools, orphanages, and hospitals, as well as homes for the aged and disabled.
During their 10th General Chapter held in 2005, the Sisters decided to move the motherhouse from Karachi to Old Goa and to divide the administration of the congregation into two provinces: the Province of Street Francis of Assisi in Pakistan and Street Clare"s Province in India, as well as three Regions, which are expected to develop into full provinces.
In 2010 there were 61 sisters in Pakistan, still working in their various institutions and ministries.
Membership
In 1939 Sequeira was also elected as a member of the Municipal Council by the people of Karachi.
