However, at Rome it proved impossible to restore many premises of suppressed religious institutions to their former owners. The Papal government was formally re-established when the Congress of Vienna in 1815 adopted a policy of returning Europe to a status quo anteas far as possible. The administration was taken over by Irish secular priests under an Italian Rector until the College was shut down and the Irish expelled by the French under Napoleon in 1798. The Jesuits were suppressed in 1773, having been deprived of the College in the previous year. The nearest parish church was Santa Maria in Campo Carleo. This was taken very seriously at the time. The Via degli Ibernesi premises might have contained a private chapel, but the local parish priest would have kept a close watch to ensure that no manifestations of public liturgical worship developed. The two nationalities would have communicated in Latin. The Rectors of the College were not always Irish -for the 135 years that the Jesuits were in charge, the Rector was Italian for 64 of them. It was standard practice for Roman religious institutions to own vineyards. They probably sold the wine from Castel Gandolfo for good money, and drank the local stuff themselves. One of the vineyards keeping the College members in drink was down the Via Portuense, where the Via degli Irlandesi preserves its memory. When the Nolli map of 1748 was surveyed, streets were finally given proper names and the one containing the College was named after it ("Hibernians"). Back then, incredibly, only the main streets in Rome had names and side-streets were identified by a short description. The College's new home was ready in 1639, being what is now Via degli Ibernesi 20. The Jesuits hence took over in 1635, and had the students study at their Collegio Romanowith its church of Santa Marta al Collegio Romano. The cardinal also instructed his heir to purchase a new residence for the College. This was a horrible surprise for the Franciscans, but there was nothing they could do about it. As well as leaving the College a huge annuity and several vineyards (including a very extensive one at Castel Gandolfo) in his will, he left the administration of the College to the Jesuits. The College worshipped in the church of Sant'Isidoro. The cardinal must have taken note, but made no intervention during his lifetime. Complaints hence came from the Irish secular clergy, about how the new college was apparently being treated as a Franciscan institution. The first Rector of the college was the secular priest Fr Eugene Callahan from Killaloe, but the next two were Franciscans: Fra Martin Walsh, and Fra John Punch the theologian. The first six students took up residence in a house opposite the convent in 1628, in what is now the Via degli Artisti. The latter was famous as the builder of the nearby country villa and gardens of the Villa Ludovisi. Fra Wadding drew up the house regulations and was the supervisor, but the governor and patron was Cardinal Ludovisi. The new convent was ratified by a bull from Pope Urban VIII in 1625, with Fra Wadding as superior.Īs part of the same project, the Collegio Ludovisiano was founded for Irish secular students for the priesthood, who were to study at Sant'Isidoro. He had the idea of founding a friary and house of studies for Irish Franciscans, and the Curia handed over the complex to him. The property devolved to the central Curia of the Franciscan order at Santa Maria in Aracoeli. had been resident in the friary of San Pietro in Montorio when the unfinished Spanish Franciscan friary and church of Sant'Isidoro a Capo le Case went bankrupt in 1624. The founders were Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi ( Cardinal Protector of Ireland) and the Francisican friar and theologian Luke Wadding.įra Wadding, a voluminous writer and a very forceful personality. The Pontifical Irish College was established in 1628 by as a seminary to train Irish priests for ministry in Ireland at a time when anti-Catholic penal laws made it impossible for priests to be trained in Ireland.
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