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Sacred Heart Canossian College, the Glossary

Sacred Heart Canossian College (Chinese: 嘉諾撒聖心書院; abbr: 'SHCC') is a Catholic, all-girls' school established at Robinson and Caine Roads, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong.^[1]

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1860 establishments in the British Empire
Canossian educational institutions
Catholic secondary schools in Hong Kong
Girls' schools in Hong Kong
Pok Fu Lam

Adeline Yen Mah

Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲) (legal birthday 30 November 1937) is a Chinese-American author and physician.

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Alice Mak (cartoonist)

Alice Mak is an artist and cartoonist.

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Anson Maria Elizabeth Chan Fang On-sang, (née Fang; born 17 January 1940) is a retired Hong Kong politician and civil servant who was the first ethnic Chinese and woman to serve as Chief Secretary, the second-highest position in both the British colonial government and the Hong Kong SAR government under the Chinese sovereignty from 1993 until she retired from the government in 2001, sparking speculations of her growing rift with Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa.

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Caine Road

Caine Road is a road running through Mid-Levels, Hong Kong.

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Canonization

Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, or authorized list of that communion's recognized saints.

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Canossa Hospital

Canossa Hospital (Caritas) is a private Catholic community hospital in Hong Kong.

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Canossians

The Canossians are a family of two Catholic religious institutes and three affiliated lay associations that trace their origin to Magdalen of Canossa, a religious sister canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1988.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë (commonly; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.

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Chief Executive of Hong Kong

The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is the representative of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and head of the Government of Hong Kong.

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Chief Secretary for Administration

The Chief Secretary for Administration, commonly known as the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, is the most senior principal official of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

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Civic Party

The Civic Party (CP) was a pro-democracy liberal political party in Hong Kong.

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District councils of Hong Kong

The district councils, formerly district boards until 1999, are the local councils for the 18 districts of Hong Kong.

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Donald Tsang

Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen (born 7 October 1944) is a former Hong Kong civil servant who served as the second Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012.

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Elsie Leung

Elsie Leung Oi-sie, GBM, JP (born 24 April 1939) is a Hong Kong politician and solicitor.

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Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland.

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Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.

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Geographical constituency

In Hong Kong, geographical constituencies, as opposed to functional constituencies, are elected by all eligible voters according to geographically demarcated constituencies.

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Government of Hong Kong

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, commonly known as the Hong Kong Government or HKSAR Government, is the executive authorities of Hong Kong.

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Governor of Hong Kong

The governor of Hong Kong was the representative of the British Crown in Hong Kong from 1843 to 1997.

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Grant School (Hong Kong)

A Grant School is a special type of secondary school in Hong Kong.

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Han Chinese

The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China.

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Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.

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History of Hong Kong (1800s–1930s)

Hong Kong (1800s–1930s) oversaw the founding of the new crown colony of Hong Kong under the British Empire.

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Hong Kong Island

Hong Kong Island is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong.

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John Bowring

Sir John Bowring, or Phrayā Siam Mānukūlakicca Siammitra Mahāyaśa (17 October 1792 – 23 November 1872) was a British political economist, traveller, writer, literary translator, polyglot and the fourth Governor of Hong Kong.

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Kitty Yuen

Kitty Yuen (born 23 November 1970) is a Hong Kong radio DJ, television host and actress.

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Legislative Council of Hong Kong

The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, colloquially known as LegCo, is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong.

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Macau

Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Magdalene of Canossa

Magdalena di Canossa (1 March 1774 – 10 April 1835) was an Italian religious sister and the foundress of the two Canossian congregations.

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Marie Curie

Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

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McDull

McDull is an anthropomorphic pig cartoon character that was created in Hong Kong by cartoonist Alice Mak and Brian Tse.

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McMug

McMug is an anthropomorphic pig cartoon character from Hong Kong featured in comic strips, TV shows, and films.

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Mid-Levels

Mid-Levels is an affluent residential area on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong.

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Mother Teresa

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu,; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.

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Pok Fu Lam

Pok Fu Lam (labels) or Pokfulam is a residential area on Hong Kong Island, at the western end of the Southern District.

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Portuguese Empire

The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas or the Portuguese Colonial Empire, was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Robinson Road, Hong Kong

Robinson Road is a thoroughfare located in Mid-Levels, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

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Sacred Heart Canossian School

Sacred Heart Canossian School (abbr: "SHCS"; not to be confused with Sacred Heart Canossian School Private Section) is a Catholic girls' school established at Caine Road, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong. Sacred Heart Canossian College and Sacred Heart Canossian School are Canossian educational institutions.

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Secretary for Justice (Hong Kong)

The Secretary for Justice is the head of the Hong Kong Department of Justice, the chief legal advisor to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, and the chief law enforcement officer of the Government of Hong Kong.

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St. Francis' Canossian College

St. Sacred Heart Canossian College and St. Francis' Canossian College are Canossian educational institutions, Catholic secondary schools in Hong Kong and girls' schools in Hong Kong.

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St. Mary's Canossian College

St. Sacred Heart Canossian College and St. Mary's Canossian College are Canossian educational institutions, Catholic secondary schools in Hong Kong and girls' schools in Hong Kong.

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Stephanie Au

Stephanie Au Hoi-shun (born 30 May 1992) is a Hong Kong competitive swimmer.

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Tanya Chan

Tanya Chan (born 14 September 1971) is a Hong Kong politician who served as a Legislative Councillor representing Hong Kong Island from 2008 to 2012, and again from 2016 to 2020.

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Via et veritas et vita

() is a Latin phrase meaning "the way and the truth and the life".

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Victoria Peak

Victoria Peak is a hill on the western half of Hong Kong Island.

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Yu Wai Ting

Yu Wai Ting (born August 1, 1993) is a freestyle swimmer from Hong Kong.

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334 Scheme

The 3-3-4 Scheme is the academic structure for senior secondary education and higher education in Hong Kong, referring to the structure of three years of junior secondary school, three years of senior secondary school, and four years of university education.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Heart_Canossian_College

Also known as Emily Aloysia Bowring.

Sacred Heart Canossian College, the Glossary

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See also

1860 establishments in the British Empire

Canossian educational institutions

Catholic secondary schools in Hong Kong

Girls' schools in Hong Kong

Pok Fu Lam

References