Crescent College
Crescentes in Illo Per Omnia
Growing in Him through all things
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Dooradoyle, County Limerick Ireland |
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| School type | Secondary, coeducational |
| Founded | 1565 refounded 1859 & 1971 |
| Headmaster | Karen Fleming |
| Age range | 12-18 |
| Pupils | 950 |
| Slogan | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam |
| Affiliation | Jesuit (Catholic) |
| Website | Crescentsj.com |
Coordinates: 52°38′11″N 8°38′26″W / 52.63639°N 8.64056°W
Crescent College Comprehensive SJ is a secondary school located on a section of 40 acres (162,000 m²) of parkland at Dooradoyle, Limerick, Ireland. The college is one of a number of Jesuit schools in Ireland.
The first Jesuit school in Ireland was established at Limerick in 1565 by the Apostolic Visitor of the Holy See David Wolfe, S.J., sent to Ireland in 1563 by Pope Pius IV with the concurrence of the third Jesuit General, Diego Lainez. Wolfe, a Limerick man, was possibly Knighted for services to the Crown some years before, but subsequently entered Holy Orders in Spain. He subsequently joined the Jesuits at Rome in 1550, where he formed an association with Ignatius Loyola, Francisco Borgia, and the early Jesuits. Recognised by Loyola as a young Irish man of some promise, he was recommended to Pope Paul IV as Nuncio in the late 1550s, which was accepted. Pope Paul's Apostolic Mission charged the Visitor to "absolve all manner of lapses from the church, and chiefly heresies and schismatical faults" and to set up Grammar Schools if possible and persuade parents to send their children to them. However, it took Wolfe two years to establish his visitation, though he was confirmed as Apostolic Visitor by Pope Paul's successor, Pius IV.
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