St. Ignatius College, Barcelona

St. Ignatius College (Catalan: Jesuïtes Sarrià-Sant Ignasi) is a private Catholic primary and secondary school and vocational training facility, located in the Sarrià neighbourhood of Barcelona, in Catalonia, an autonomous community in the northeastern corner of Spain.

[1] St. Ignatius College currently offers kindergarten, primary, secondary high school, and vocational training; the compulsory part is government subsidized.

[citation needed] The centre began as a boarding school in a rented municipal building in Manresa, which was evacuated after a misunderstanding between the Council and the Jesuits.

[citation needed] The school was closed in 1914 so that the facility could accommodate the Jesuit houses of philosophical and theological studies for the priesthood, but it reopened in 1927.

[citation needed] During the Second Republic as a result of the decree of expulsion of the Jesuits, the Government made it a public school until the end of the Civil War.