Concordia College (Manila)
| Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la Concordia | |
Facade of the School
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| Motto | Vita, Veritas, Virtus, Sciencia |
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Motto in English
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"Life, Truth, Virtue, Knowledge" |
| Type | Private Catholic school |
| Established | 1868 |
| Location |
Paco, Manila, Philippines 14°34′53″N 121°00′09″E / 14.581251°N 121.002525°ECoordinates: 14°34′53″N 121°00′09″E / 14.581251°N 121.002525°E |
| Hymn | College Hymn |
| Colors | Blue and White |
| Nickname | Concordian |
| Affiliations | U-Belt |
| Website | http://concordia.dcphilippines.org |
The Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la Concordia, simply Concordia College, is a Catholic private institution of learning in Pedro Gil, Paco, Manila, in the Philippines. The college was founded in 1868 and is run by Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. Concordia College prospered towards the end of the nineteenth century with an upward enrollment.
Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la Concordia was established by Doña Margarita Roxas de Ayala by converting her three-and-a-half hectare villa, the La Concordia Estate in Paco, Manila, into a school. She requested eight Daughters of Charity from Spain to come to the Philippines to manage the school. They arrived on May 3, 1868 and managed the free school or 'Escuela Pia'. Sixty students learned about religion, good manners, reading and writing, simple arithmetic, culture, and arts like sewing, embroidery, cooking, needlecraft and household work. The medium of the instruction was Spanish.
In 1868, the school officially adapted a new name, Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la Concordia, in the same year that it became the Central House of the Daughters of Charity in the Philippines.
Significant periods in the development of the Concordia College, such as the Philippine Revolution of 1896 and the American era, brought about education reform.
Among its well-known students was Maria Paz Mendoza-Guazon, the first Filipino woman doctor, who was also an educator, a writer and a feminist. Although her studies were interrupted by the Revolution, she was able to resume them when she transferred to the American School in 1901.
Other notable students were Saturmina, Soledad, and Olympia Rizal (sisters of Philippine national hero Jose Rizal; The college is mentioned in Rizal's novel Noli Me Tángere).
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Monument in front of the school
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U-shaped building
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