Colegio de la Inmaculada (Lima)
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Calle Hno. Santos García 108, Valle Hermoso, Surco (Lima) Santiago de Surco, Lima  Peru
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| Type | Private |
| Motto |
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam "For the greater glory of God" |
| Established | 1878 |
| Principal | Óscar Morelli, S.J. |
| Grades | 1–11 |
| Color(s) | Blue |
| Mascot | Wolf (of Loyola) |
| Yearbook | Anuario |
| Affiliation | Catholic, Jesuit |
| Website | ci.edu.pe |
Colegio de la Inmaculada is a Catholic school for primary and secondary education run by the Jesuits in Lima, Peru, since 1878. It finds its roots in a school called Real Colegio de San Martin which was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1582.
This school has its roots in the former , created by the Society of Jesus in Lima in 1582, which was aimed at students between the ages of 12 and 24. Grammar, philosophy, and theology were taught. It also finds its origin in the Colegio del Príncipe for children of Curacas who worked in the Enclosed Reduction.
During that period, the Jesuits were responsible for various educational institutions, which included the Maximum College of San Pablo de Lima, the Prince's College, and 15 schools in other cities of the Viceroyalty of Peru. After the expulsion of the Jesuits from Peru decreed by the King Carlos III of Spain, the school continued to function until 1770, when it was merged into the , giving way to the and disappearing after 188 years of operation. The Society of Jesus was restored by Pope Pius VII in 1814.
With Peru’s independence, the Jesuits returned to the country after 104 years of absence and Inmaculada College began to function at the old in 1878. Classes began on April 8, next to the Church of San Pedro de Lima on Cascarilla Street, by the Public Library of Lima on Abancay Avenue.
Historian Armando Nieto, S.J., indicates that the opening of a Jesuit school in Peru generated different reactions, both favorable and critical. Thus, in 1878, the newspaper El Nacional had on its editorial page a paragraph on the Society of Jesus and its members:
Exploiters of human conscience [said the writer], dark enemies of all advancement, Jewish exploiters of all rights who pervert the morals and intelligence of the people, angrily lifting the force of their crimes that have mocked religion to cover their wickedness; who, deterred by the chariot of progress, want to stop it in its triumphal march, to destroy it in outbursts of senseless wrath, writing with tears, blood, fire, and all the story of their life in the most dishonorable pages of human shame.
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