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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1593/00/00 Society of Jesus Vocation The English Jesuit College at St Omer is established in Flanders by Robert Parsons to provide a religious education for Catholics who are subject to penal legislation in England.
1599/00/00 King Philip of Spain becomes the patron of The English Jesuit College at St Omer in the Spanish Netherlands.
1615/08/01 Construction begins on a new chapel at the English Jesuit College.
1626/10/05 Structural work at Saint-Denis de Saint-Omer is completed.
1640/00/00 Society of Jesus Vocation Saint-Denis de Saint-Omer, the Chapel at the English Jesuit College is completed.
1640/06/30 Saint-Denis de Saint-Omer is attacked. The staircase of La Tribune is smashed and the windows are badly damaged.
1677/00/00 Saint-Denis de Saint-Omer is hit with four cannon balls.
1694/00/00 Thomas Gardiner Died Thomas Gardiner dies at about age 29 at the College of St Omer in Saint-Omer, Kingdom of France.
1762/00/00 Society of Jesus Vocation The Jesuit College at Saint-Omer is closed following the expulsion of Society of Jesus by Louis XV. The Jesuit faculty and many of the students flee to the Austrian Netherlands, moving first to Bruges and then to Liege.
1763/00/00 King Louis XV continues the college at St Omer, under the Christian Doctrine Fathers.
1793/00/00 During the French Revolution, the English faculty and students are imprisoned until February 1795. Once released, some of the staff and most of the 100 remaining students return to England.

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Particulars for English Jesuit College at St Omer:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Building Type Church
Owner Private
Historic Use Religious Property
Historic Use School




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