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Rome (AMERICAN COLLEGE IN a ident)

AMERICAN COLLEGE IN, a ident was the Rev. William George Mc- Closkey, later Bishop of Louisville. The money required for the establishment Ar Archbishop and conduct of the college was mainly contributed from the Un though Pope Pius IX. bought and presented to the American bishops as the nucleus of the foundation the old Visitamoney required for the establishment United States, pied by the soldiers of the French garrison in Rome. The college was formally in the project were ROME opened with thirteen students who had for some time been waiting in the College of the Propaganda for the event. The first ordination of an alumnus was in 1862, in the Church of St. John Lateran by Cardinal Patuzzi. During the Vatican Council the American prelates in Rome decided that the property of the college should remain in the hands of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda. There are thirty-five purses or scholarships founded in the colleges. The number of students is about one hundred and forty. In 1884 the college was exempted from the effect of the Italian statutes of confiscation.