St. Francis' Institution is a public
all-boys school in
Malacca
Malacca (), officially the Historic State of Malacca (), is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state in Malaysia located in the Peninsular Malaysia#Other features, southern region of the Malay Peninsula, facing the Strait of Malacca ...
,
Malaysia
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with
La Sallian tradition. It is called 'SFI' by the local population. Alumni or Old Boys, are known as 'Franciscans' or 'Lasallians'.
School Crest
The School Badge is an emblem that incorporates a star, an armorial bearing, the
Famosa Gate, and an open book, to show respectively the School's association with the De La Salle Order; its connection with its
patron
Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another. In the history of art, art patronage refers to the support that princes, popes, and other wealthy and influential people ...
, St. Francis Xavier; its location in the most historic town in Malaysia; and its purpose which is education.
The badge is a shield with four quarters.
In the top left-hand quarter is a gold star on a black background. The top right-hand quarter has three parallel divisions arranged horizontally. The top division is coloured red, the middle one is a chess-board pattern with alternating squares of black and white, and the lowest division is plain white or silver. On the red background of the top division there are three crescents, so arranged that the points of the horns coincide, and while the top and lowest crescents have alternating squares of black and white, the middle crescent has a white, or silver colour. This heraldic device of horizontal divisions and crescent was the coat-of-arms of the Castle of Xavier, the ancestral home of St. Francis. In the quarter beneath the star is the design of the Famosa Gate, an historical Malacca ruin, and the Gate is coloured red, the original colour of the laterite from which the gate was constructed. In the last quarter is an open book, yellowish green in colour on a black background, and showing the words ‘Initium Sapientiae’ meaning ‘The beginning of wisdom’.
Above the shield is a helmet surmounted by a cross on three steps, and a mantle, of gold and brown leaves, hangs front the helmet to provide a decoration for the shield. Beneath the shield is the motto ‘Age Quod Agis’ which is the best translated as ‘Whatever You Do, Do It Well’.
List of Brother Directors
* 1901 - 1903: Bro. Maurice Joseph
* 1903 - 1911: Bro. Alman Dositheus
* 1911 - 1913: Bro. Lewis Edward
* 1914 - 1916: Bro. Claude-Marie
* 1916 - 1918: Bro. Lewis Edward
* 1918 - 1920: Bro. V. Augustus
* 1920 - 1921: Bro. Lewis Edward
* 1921 - 1923: Bro. Claude-Marie
* 1923 - 1929: Bro. Barnitus Kennedy
* 1930 - 1931: Bro. Defendant Louis
* 1931 - 1936: Bro. Dominic John
* 1936 - 1947: Bro. V. Augustus
* 1948 - 1953: Bro. Edmund McCullagh
* 1953 - 1956: Bro. T. Michael
* 1956: Bro. Patrick Donovan (Acting, ''
ad interim'')
* 1956 - 1958: Bro. Leonard Aloysius
* 1959 - 1962: Bro. Alban De Rozario
* 1962 - 1965: Bro. Anthony McNamara
* 1966 - 1968: Bro. Edwin Cheng
* 1969 - 1971: Bro. Phillip Daly
* 1972 - 1975: Bro. Cassian Pappu
* 1976 - 1988: Bro. Harold Reynolds
* 1988 - present: Bro. Ambrose Loke (concurrently served as principal until his retirement in 1999/2000, now only serves as the school's ex-officio Brother Director)
List of Principals
* 2001 - 2009: Ong Cheong Wee (first lay principal after Brother Ambrose's retirement in 1999/2000)
* 2009 - 2011: Chong Chew Yoong (Acting principal)
* 2011 - 2014: Lee Bun Chuan
* 2014 - 2019: Lee Chee Choon
* 2019 - 2021: Cheong Lee Chin
* 2022 - present: Lee Soon Luwi
See also
*
Education in Malaysia
Education in Malaysia is overseen by the Ministry of Education (Malaysia), Ministry of Education (). Although education is the responsibility of the Government of Malaysia, Federal Government, each states and federal territories of Malaysia, st ...
References
External links
The Franciscan- The Official St. Francis' Institution Website
St. Francis' Institution- Official School Website
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Primary schools in Malaysia
Secondary schools in Malaysia
Catholic schools in Malaysia
Lasallian schools in Malaysia
Educational institutions established in 1880
1880 establishments in British Malaya
Publicly funded schools in Malaysia
Boys' schools in Malaysia