St. Francis Xavier Piarist Church, Monastery and Grammar School
Kostol sv. Františka Xaverského
St. Francis Xavier Piarist Church, Monastery and Grammar School
Kostol sv. Františka Xaverského
Original function:
church and monastery
school
Address:
Mierové námestie 43, 911 01 Trenčín
Historical Hungarian county:
Trencsén
GPS coordinates:
48.894716, 18.040464
History
The Jesuits moved to the town of Trencsén in 1646. They occupied the house that Blessed Bosnyák Zsófia had left on them in her will back in 1632. The Jesuits were not welcomed in the Lutheran town. They started peaceful conversion and opened a grammar school in 1649. Count Illésházy György supported their activities. The Jesuit novitiate was opened in 1655 and the building was raised between1656 and 1661. The Jesuit church was built between 1653 and 1657 from the contribution of Archbishop Lippay György of Esztergom. The architect was Pietro Spazzo. The church was damaged in a fire in 1708. It gained its Baroque appearance in the reconstruction between 1709 and 1713. The main altar was made in 1767.
In 1773 the pope dissolved the Jesuit order. The Piarists were invited in their place by the burghers of the town in 1776.
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