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finally ended it. The English masters and students were interned until February 1795. Meanwhile, the English penal laws and resulting discrimination had changed, and Roman Catholic education was now possible in England. Once released in France, some of the staff and most of the hundred remaining
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In 1762, during a time of rising social tensions, France formally expelled the Jesuits from the country. This resulted in the college's decline and eventual end. The expulsion split the college. The Jesuit masters and many of the students fled to the
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Robert Parsons (1546–1610), had been instrumental in founding the College at Valladolid, but recognised a need for a school for young laymen. Saint-Omer was chosen as a site conveniently close to England, just 24 miles from
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resulted in a decline in students being sent from England, and the number dropped to as low as 24 in 1645. When stability returned to the English government, the school regained students and revived its programs.
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continued the college at St. Omer, under the direction of secular clergy. When the Jesuit order was suppressed everywhere in 1773, the dual system ended, but the college never regained its prominence.
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were also affiliated with the Anglican and Protestant churches, the wealthier Catholic families (initially primarily from Maryland) sent their young men to St Omer to be educated.
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The college enjoyed its greatest period of prosperity from around 1720 to 1762. During the period when formal sworn affiliation with the
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At Peace with All Their Neighbors: Catholics and Catholicism in the National Capital, 1787–1860
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students went to England, to avoid the war on the European continent. A former member,
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of Spain. After an initial period of growth and prosperity, the unrest caused by the
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Grey, Father, the Right Honourable, thirteenth Earl of Shrewsbury" in Henry Foley,
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Below is a list of college rectors from its foundation until the move to England.
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in Washington, D.C., the oldest Catholic university in the United States.
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was developed on the site of the former Jesuit college in Saint Omer.
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continues to this day as a direct lineal descendant of the College of
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"Charles Plowden." 885:Francis Scarisbrick SJ (1759–1762) 861:Marmaduke Constable SJ (1737–1739) 598:, Chief Justice of South Carolina. 583:Forty Martyrs of England and Wales 14: 1285: 1249:History of Catholicism in England 1183: 1090:Dictionary of Literary Biography, 929:William Strickland SJ (1783–1790) 770:Gilles Schoondonck SJ (1601–1617) 533: 364:English Jesuit College at St Omer 1239:Jesuit universities and colleges 991:Pollen, John Hungerford (1911). 895:Nathaniel Elliott SJ (1762–1766) 809:Michael Constable SJ (1688–1693) 773:Philippe Dentiers SJ (1617–1621) 212: 133: 108: 29: 1195:Ward, Bernard Nicholas (1912). 858:Thomas Eccleston SJ (1731–1737) 846:John Turberville SJ (1721–1722) 824:Edward Slaughter SJ (1705–1709) 821:Henry Humberston SJ (1701–1705) 803:Thomas Stapleton SJ (1679–1683) 139:The front of Stonyhurst College 1212:Irwin, Francis Joseph (1912). 1176:T. E. 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