Colegio de San Juan de Letran

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Colegio de San Juan de Letran
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motto "Deus, Patria, Letran"
("God, Fatherland, Lateran ")
founding 1620
Sponsorship Dominican Order
place Manila , Philippines
Chancellor Very Rev. Fr.  Bruno Cadoré , S. T. D.
Website www.letran.edu

The Colegio de San Juan de Letran ( CSJL for short , also known as Letran ), also known under San Juan de Letran College (SJLC), is an orphan school under the name Colegio de 1620 by a Spanish officer named Juan Geronimo Guerrero († 1640) Niños Huerfanos de San Juan de Letran founded the Catholic educational institution of the Dominican Order in the Philippines .

The educational offer ranges from elementary school education to university courses. Letran is the second oldest university in the Philippines after the Universidad de Santo Tomás . Since 1970 women have also been admitted to the school.

The name of the institution is derived from the Lateran Basilica in Rome, whose namesake is also Saint John the Baptist ( Filipino : San Juan ). Furthermore, Our Lady of Holy Rosary School patron. The current chancellor of the university is Provost (Very Reverend Father) Bruno Cadoré (Sacrae Theologiae Doctor).

Main campus shown on a map from 1671:
• A. Juan Geronimo Guerrero's house
• B. Santa Domingo Monastery
• C. First school building 1640–1645
• D. Building "extra-muros" ("outside the wall")
• E-E4. Extension buildings from 1711
1851: Letran and Santo Domingo
Main campus today

history

Until 1638 he was teaching in Guerrero's house on the corner of Calle de la Muralla / Calle Real , in the Intramuros district of Manila . In 1626 he asked King Philip IV for financial support for his project; until then he financed the training of the Spanish orphan boys by collecting alms. His compatriot Diego de Santa María († 1655) came to Manila around 1630 to fulfill his mission in the neighboring Dominican monastery of Santa Domingo . Diego de Santa María , who had been sent to Mexico since 1574 as a monk of the Real Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe , at that time still the Viceroyalty of New Spain , founded a school for orphan boys in Intramuros in 1932 called Colegio de Huerfanos de San Pedro y San Pablo .

Don Juan Geronimo Guerrero himself was a Knight of the Order of Malta . After Guerrero's death, Governor General Sebastián Hurtado de Corcuera and the Archbishop of Manila Hernando de Guerrero requested the recognition of the institution by the Dominican Order. This took place on June 18, 1640. Since that year, the lessons of the two schools merged to form the Colegio de Niños Huerfanos de San Pedro y San Pablo de San Juan de Letran have been held in the newly built school building on Calle Solana at the corner of Calle del Beaterio . The school building was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1645, five years after completion, and had to be renovated. Until it was completed, the monastery again served as a teaching building until 1648, and a building outside the city walls (“extra-muros”) until 1669, where the Metropolitan Theater (MET) is today. In 1690 it was recognized as a church university. In 1738 the Spanish king donated six scholarships for Chinese, Japanese and Tonkinese students.

The area of ​​the main campus, today bordered by Calle Muralla , Calle Real , Calle de Anda and Calle Legaspi , has been expanded again and again. The educational institution was given its current name in 1706. The building north of Calle Legaspi , recognizable in photos as the main building in the 18th century , was not built until after 1711. In 1923 a cadet union and a military band were formed at the school.

In 1937 the old building gave way to today's three-story main building. During the Second World War , the Letran could not escape the military influence. In 1941, the main building of the school caught fire after being bombed. In 1942, the Japanese army used one half of the school complex as a garrison , while the other half continued to operate. In the further course of the war, but especially during the reconquest by the US armed forces, the Letran was badly affected. In the meantime, the school had to be outsourced, but returned to the previous building from 1946, which was returned to the state before the start of the war as part of a comprehensive reconstruction.

  • Alumni office 1880

  • Entrance to the St. John the Baptist building

  • St. Thomas building (library and media center)

In 1987 a special postage stamp appeared in the Philippines to mark the 400th anniversary of the Dominicans' service in the Philippines . The motif is the Letran, with the founders of the Colegio Juan Geronimo Guerrero and Diego de Santa María standing in front of them, as well as some of their students.

Sports

Letran Knights (blue-red) against the De La Salle Green Archers (2010)

Due to the multiple victories of the Letran Knights school basketball team, founded in 1911, at the Philippine NCAA men's championships, men's school teams in other sports also bear this name. The volleyball and taekwondo women's teams are called Letran Lady Knights , and the youth teams are called Letran Squires .

In honor of the school's founder, the Letran Knights mascot depicts a knight with a red cloak on a gold-colored horse with a shield and flag in blue-red national colors , since Guerrero, the school's founder, was a knight of the Order of Malta.

Colegio de San Juan de Letran Calamba

In 1979 a branch was set up in Calamba City . On March 11, 1979, the campus of the Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba , Letran Calamba for short , was officially opened, which on August 7, 1986 received the status of an independent school of the Dominican Order from the mother institution. The institution currently has almost 350 full-time and well over 100 part-time employees.

Colegio de San Juan de Letran Bataan

In 2000, after a three-year planning phase, the Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Abucay, Bataan campus was built in Abucay . The decision was made in 1998. Hermosa and Balanga City had previously been under closer examination for the new location. The master plan for the site comes from the house of the two architects Romulo L. Reyes and Yolanda "Yolli" David-Reyes .

Well-known graduates

Web links

Commons : Colegio de San Juan de Letran  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Colegio de San Juan de Letran Continuing a tradition of excellence ( Memento of July 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Manila Bulletin, 2005.
  2. ↑ Gester Jeff Quilala: A Knight's Tale ( Memento from September 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Lance online, June 2005
  3. ↑ Arnaldo Dumindin: Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 .
  4. ↑ Calle : Spanish for an urban street
  5. ^ A b Letran Journey in Time , CSJL.
  6. ^ Juan Guerrero: Petition to Philip IV for support of the seminary of San Juan de Letran, 1626 , petition of August 1, 1626.
  7. ↑ see footnotes: [1]
  8. ↑ a b The League of Extraordinary Players ( Memento from June 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), The LANCE online, June 2005.
  9. ^ A b Letran through the Centuries , CSJL.
  10. ^ A b History of the Colegio , CSJL.
  11. ↑ philatelydominicanorder.org: Diego of Santa María († 1655) and the college of Saint John of Lateran ( Memento of November 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 20, 2011 (English)
  12. ↑ The Bedan, Vol.LXVIII, No. 5
  13. ↑ About Us ( Memento of March 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Letran Calamba.
  14. ^ To Emerging University Town In Abucay, Bataan , philstar.com, January 23, 2008

Coordinates: 14 ° 35 ′ 35.5 ″  N , 120 ° 58 ′ 36 ″  E