Order of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament

[2] In 1852, French-born Jean-Marie Odin, Bishop of Galveston, Texas visited France to obtain religious for his far-off mission.

There they stayed temporarily with a Carmelite community there, before sailing to Galveston, Texas, where they received seven months of instruction in English and Spanish.

Although no longer taking boarders, IWA remains the oldest permanent Catholic School in the city of Houston.

[6] In 1926, seven Irish-born Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament responded to the Bishop of Omaha's appeal for teachers.

[7] In 1903, sisters from Brownsville were sent to Ciudad Tula at the request of Filemón Fierro y Terán [de], Bishop of Tamaulipas.

In 1921 Mary of the Sacred Heart Hord returned to México with a number of sisters and established a convent in Gómez Palacio, Durango.

Their school was closed during the time of the Cristero War, but was re-opened in 1932 as the Colegio Villa de Matel, Incorporado.