Location: Intramuros, Manila
Category: Association/Institution/Organization
Type: Institutional marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 30 November 1935
Installed by: Historical Research and Markers Committee
Marker text:
ATENEO DE MANILA
THIS WAS THE SITE OF “ESCUELA PIA” TAKEN OVER BY THE JESUITS IN 1859 AND RENAMED “ATENEO MUNICIPAL DE MANILA” IN 1865. JOSE RIZAL RECEIVED FROM THIS SCHOOL, THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS ON MARCH 23, 1877. IN 1901 THE NAME WAS CHANGED TO “ATENEO DE MANILA.” ON AUGUST 13, 1932, THE BUILDING TOGETHER WITH THE SCHOOL MUSEUM, LIBRARY, AND EQUIPMENT, WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE, AND THE CLASSES HAD TO BE TRANSFERRED TO THE “COLEGIO DE SAN JOSE” ON CALLE PADRE FAURA. THE PRESENT BUILDING, TO WHICH THE ATENEO GRADE SCHOOL RETURNED IN JUNE, 1940, WAS BLESSED ON DECEMBER 15, 1940.
