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(Concordia College)
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Founding and Later Years
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Doña Margarita Roxas de Ayala requested eight nuns from the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in Spain to come to the Philippines to administer the school. They arrived on May 3, 1868, and began operating the free school, known as Escuela Pia. In the same year, the school officially adopted the name Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la Concordia and became the Central House of the Daughters of Charity in the Philippines. 
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The initial enrollment was sixty students, who were taught religion, good manners, reading and writing, simple arithmetic, culture, and arts like sewing, embroidery, cooking, needlecraft, and household work. The medium of instruction was Spanish. 
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The institution prospered towards the end of the nineteenth century, with enrollment increasing every year.
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May 3, 1868: La Concordia College was established in Manila