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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.
The Colleges of St Omer, Bruges and Liège were successive expatriate institutions for Roman Catholic higher education run by the Jesuits for English students.
St Omers College. 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 ...
Foundation and the Early Years. In 1593, the English Jesuit College of St Omers – Stonyhurst’s direct lineal predecessor – was founded by the English Jesuit priest, Fr Robert Persons SJ. The school’s purpose was to provide a safe place of education to the sons of English recusant Catholic families, at a time when such schooling was ...
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.
- Maurice Whitehead
- 2017
The English Jesuit college of St Omer was transferred to Bruges. Despite these political storm clouds, the English Province was strong: in 1768 there were approximately three hundred Jesuits, twenty-six of whom worked in Maryland and one hundred and thirty-six in England.
The well-known Jesuit college at St. Omer -- oftener spoken of under the anglicized form of St. Omers or St. Omer's -- was founded by Father Parsons in 1592 or 1593.
