Historical data on the School
D esde their arrival to the New Spain in 1572, the jesuitas initiated the evangelización work towards distant zones of the capital that not yet had been taken care of by other orders; and they were led to initiate the foundation of schools, like angular stone of the propaganda fide or propagation of fé. By the end of century XVI arose the School from San Ildefonso, with the purpose of providing with accomodations to the students of the Maximum School of San Pedro and San Pablo. That first building was inagurado in 1 588, during the government of the virrey Alvaro Manrique de Zúñiga. The historical importance of the Old School of San Ildefonso is not only in the architectonic and artistic aspects of the building, but that goes on a par with the student life of the country. The building that is conserved to the present time; it dates from first half of century XVIII.
Its construction initiated with the Small School (at the moment occupied by the Filmoteca of the U.N.A.M.). The rest of the architectonic set consists of two claustros, that correspond to the School of Pasantes and the Great School. On the street of San ildefonso the covers are appraised barrocas of the Small School with a sculpture of the Virgin of the Rosary, and the one of the Great School, finished off by a relief of San Ildefonso receiving casulla of hands of the Virgin Maria. After the expulsion of the jesuitas in 1767, the building had diverse uses: Quarter of the Regiment of Flandes, temporary seat of the School of Jurisprudence and some chairs of the Medicine School; also, it was quarter of the North American and French aggressor forceses. Of real and Older School of San Ildefonso it happened to denominate itself Imperial under the governments of Iturbide and Maximiliano, and National, during the First Republic.
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