Jesuits Open College at Coimbra
1551
The Society of Jesus opened a major college at Coimbra in Portugal that would become a training ground for missionaries bound for Brazil, Angola, and the Indies. Rigorous in Latin, Greek, theology, and mathematics, Jesuit colleges would eventually number in the hundreds and reshape Catholic education globally. The rigorous curriculum became the template for the global Jesuit educational network that would reshape Catholic education.
In context
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.