CHAPTER 4:

Scholastic Triumphs
Ateneo de Manila (1872 –
 4 months after the execution of Gom-Bur-

Za and with Doña Teodora still in prison

 Jose, was sent to Manila

 He studied in the Ateneo Municipal

 Under the supervision of the Spanish

Jesuits

 Bitter rival of the Dominican-owned College

of San Juan de Letran

 Formerly Escuela Pia (Charity School)

 Established by City Government in 1817 for

poor boys in manila

 1768 Jesuits expelled from Philippines

 Returned to Manila in 1859

 Later, became Ateneo de Manila