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The Colleges of St Omer, Bruges and Liège were successive expatriate institutions for Roman Catholic higher education run by the Jesuits for English students. Founded in 1593 by Robert Parsons as the College of Saint-Omer in Artois (then part of the Spanish Netherlands ), [1] in the 18th century the college was twice forced to relocate, due to the suppression of the Jesuit order in France.
On the 9th of August 1762, the English College began its migration from St Omer in Artois, to Bruges. Initially founded in 1593 by Fr Robert Persons SJ as the College of Saint-Omer in Artois, France (then part of the Spanish Netherlands), the school was forced to relocate twice due to the suppression of the Jesuit order, first to Bruges in 1762 and then Liege in 1773, before migrating a third ...
The Colleges of St Omer, Bruges and Liège were successive expatriate institutions for Roman Catholic higher education run by the Jesuits for English students.. Founded in 1593 by Father Robert Parsons SJ as the College of Saint-Omer in Artois (then part of the Spanish Netherlands), in the 18th century the college was twice forced to relocate, due to the suppression of the Jesuit order in France.
The boys and Jesuit masters of the College were forced to flee Saint-Omer and move to Bruges, then in the Austrian Netherlands. The school remained in Bruges, under the protection of the Empress Maria Theresa, until the brief was signed by Pope Clement XIV for the suppression of the Society of Jesus across the globe in 1773.
For some years in the eighteenth century there was a preparatory school for St Omers College;from 1742-52 it was at Boulogne , in 1753 at Saint -Omer, from 1754 at Watten near Saint-Omer.
The Colleges of St Omer, Bruges and Liège were successive expatriate institutions for Roman Catholic higher education run by the Jesuits for English students. Founded in 1593 by Father Robert Parsons SJ as the College of Saint-Omer in Artois (then part of the Spanish Netherlands), in the 18th century the college was twice forced to relocate, due to the suppression of the Jesuit order in France.
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Apr 10, 2017 · His current research is focussed on educational and cultural links between the English Jesuit colleges of Saint-Omer, Bruges and Liège and the Jesuit-administered Venerable English College in Rome between 1593 and 1773.
