Location : Lies on the road from Old Goa to Ponda.
Main Attraction : Old ruins of the brilliant church.
How to Reach : Local transport within Goa is available round the
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Even the degree of Master of Arts and the Doctorate were presented here.
After some years, the old college building was pulled down and two separate
buildings were constructed, both linked to each other by a passageway. The
College had a vast library with numerous books, a hospital and a house for
the newly converts and the first printing press in Asia was set up in this
College. It was from here the first printed publications came through.
In the year 1560, the Church was demolished on account of its fragile state
and the foundation stone for a larger Church was laid on 25th January 1560.
The building of a new structure in this place met with a rigid opposition of
Augustinians and Nuns from Santa Monica.
Some other enemies of the Jesuits
set fire to the building four times between 1591 and 1675. There were some
mortal remains of revered St. Francis Xavier deposited in a silver box in
this College, which was later taken to Basilica of Bom Jesus.
The College and the Church were already in a devastated state by the year
1827. The Government finally demolished it fully in 1829. The material was
taken to Panaji to be used for new constructions. The remaining archway of
the portico of the Church lies on the road from Old Goa to Ponda just a
short distance from the Gandhi Circle, on the left side of the road amid a
bunch of trees.
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