Lourdes Hill College is a Roman Catholic, secondary, day and was a boarding school for girls, located in Hawthorne, an inner-eastern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The college was named after Lourdes in France, where Mary is said to have appeared to a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous. It was founded in 1916 by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan of the Order of Saint Benedict, and currently caters for approximately 870 students from Years 8 to 12 (12 to 18 years of age), which included 70 boarders. Lourdes Hill is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), and the Brisbane Schoolgirls Sporting Association (BSGSA). The school is one of eleven colleges incorporated by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. Lourdes Hill College traces its origins to 1915, when the Archbishop of Brisbane, James Duhig, invited the Order of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan to establish schools in Brisbane. Subsequently, that same year, thirteen Sisters travelled from Sydney opening convents at Bulimba and Coorparoo.