Type Jesuit, Catholic Principal Janeide Medrado Gender Coeducational | Director Mariângela Risério Grades First through eleventh | |
Established 1911; 106 years ago (1911) | ||
Antonio Vieira College is an educational institution founded by the Society of Jesus in Salvador, Brazil, in 1911. It has about 5,000 students enrolled in grades one through eleven, in morning and afternoon shifts, and also gives night classes for youth and adults.
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History
The College was founded on 15 March 1911 at 43 Sodre Street, where Ypiranga College stands today. In 1912 it moved to Coqueiros da Piedade Street, and a boarding school was added. In 1915 this became Vieirense Academy of Science and Letters.
In 1926 land was acquired at Garcia Farm, and the foundation stone of a new building laid in 1930. The Scout group (GEAV) was founded in 1928. The Jesuits acquired Mercy Farm Mar Grande in 1945, for St. Joseph retreat house. A Parent Teacher Association (APM) followed in 1958. In 1967 the school began admitting girls.
In 1995 a multisport gym was opened at the college. In 1997 the College choir was founded under the direction of Cicero Alves Filho, and the Religious Music Festival (FEMURE) followed in 2000. The swimming pool was built in 2001. The Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima at the College hosts large groups like the Bahia Symphony Orchestra.
The three units of the library contain together 40,000 titles.
Mission
António Vieira, for whom the College is named, was born in Lisbon on 6 February 1608 and moved with his family to Salvador in 1614. Entering the Society of Jesus in 1625, he was ordained a priest in 1643. He had a talent for writing and oratory, which he used to address socio-political issues. He contributed to Brazilian Catholic culture more than 700 letters and 200 sermons, printed between 1679 and 1696. Topics pertained mainly to the Portuguese Brazilian world: the struggle against the Dutch in Bahia, the defense of converts to Christianity, and the protection and Christianization of the indigenous peoples in Brazil and black Africans. He became a diplomat at the Portuguese court – preacher and royal advisor and ambassador for Europe (1641-1661) – as well as a missionary in Maranhão, Pará, and Amazon (1652-1661). He faced proceedings in the Portuguese Inquisition. He spent his last few years in Bahia, collating his sermons.
The Jesuit Colleges Federation of Latin America (FLACSI) fosters in Jesuit schools the principles of Ignatian Pedagogy. In concert with this the Antonio Vieira College values academic competence without neglecting "human competence", the formation of people able to exert ethical influence in society.
Integral to its mission, the College assists institutions such as Arise and Walk, Child and Family, and PIM Project. Fourth year students help at Martagão Gesteira Hospital.