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Continental precursors at St Omer, Bruges, and Liège
- When
- 1593–1794
- Where
- St Omer, Bruges, and Liège
Before settling in Lancashire, the school had been founded at St Omer in 1593 and later moved to Bruges in 1762 and Liège in 1773.
A precursor institution was founded in 1593 by Father Robert Persons SJ at St Omer, in the Spanish Netherlands, under the royal patronage of Philip II of Spain, at a time when penal laws prohibited Catholic education in England. The school subsequently moved to Bruges in 1762 and to Liège in 1773, where it remained until the 1794 transfer to Stonyhurst.
Sources
- Stonyhurst College Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-25
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