Concorida College was founded on May 3, 1868, by a wealthy philanthropist, Do?a Margarita Roxas de Ayala. She wrote the queen of Spain, Isabela II, in her own handwriting to ask for ?Hijas de la Caridad? to manage a ?Escuela Pia? for the poor girls of Paco , Manila. So it was, that on July 22, 1862 fifteen Daughters of Charity arrived in the Philippines after a three months journey from Spain aboard the frigate ?Conception?.