It ceased as a seminary after 1850, with the Irish Dominicans in San Clemente al Laterano, Rome available to train candidates for the order, and with the last significant Penal Laws removed in 1829, much of the property was sold to fund the establishment of St. Mary's Priory, Tallaght, Dublin.
[5] The church was called the Igreja do Corpo Santo, Cais do Sodré, Lisbon.
On July 11, 2022, there was a seminar hosted by the Irish Embassy in Portugal in the College of Bom Successo, marking the departure.
[8] Other rectors of the Dominican college include Bernard Russell, Laurence Barry, Raymond Butler, William Grace, John O'Brien, and Luke Hackett.
Among those buried in Corpo Santo are Daniel O'Daly[1] the founding rector and Michael MacDonagh, Bishop of Kilmore.