Location: Intramuros, Manila
Category: Association/Institution/Organization
Type: Institutional marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 26 June 1935
Installed by: Historical Research and Markers Committee
Marker text:
SANTA ROSA BEATERIO AND COLLEGE FOR GIRLS
THIS INSTITUTION, AS A BEATERIO, WAS FOUNDED ABOUT 1750 BY THE DOMINICAN TERTIARY PAULA DE LA SANTISIMA TRINIDAD. THE SCHOOL WAS ENTRUSTED TO THE SISTERS OF CHARITY IN 1866. THE BUILDING THAT HAD BEEN PARTIALLY DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKE OF 1863 WAS REBUILT IN 1866 BY SOR EUSTAQUIA LARA. THE LATER BUILDING WAS DESTROYED BY THE EARTHQUAKE OF 1880 AND WAS REPLACED BY THE PRESENT STRUCTURE ERECTED FROM ITS VERY FOUNDATIONS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF SOR JOSEFA NUÑEZ.
