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20 Nov, 5 tweets, 4 min read
#TodayinHistory in 1645, Colegio de Santo Tomas was elevated to university status by virtue of Pope Innocent X's In Supreminenti. The institution therefore became Universidad de Santo Tomas (@UST1611official). It added "pontifical university" on its title. THREAD.
In 1611, the institution was official founded upon Spanish King Philip II's granting of its Document of Foundation. Years prior, Domingo de Salazar, Miguel de Benavides, and other pioneering Dominicans worked to est. the learning institution.
Its first campus was in #Intramuros, beside the original Santo Domingo Church in the Walled City. A second campus, a larger one, was built in Sampaloc, #Manila. During #WWII, the Intramuros campus was destroyed, while the Sampaloc campus survived.
UST has the oldest extant university charter in the country & in Asia.

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- Plaza Benavides of UST Intramuros, c. 1930s, Presidential Museum & Library
- Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1650) by Diego Velazquez
- UST Intramuros campus, c. 1930s, from Angel Narag, Jr.
- UST Sampaloc campus, c. 1945, from John Tewell

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