Note 3 — GIRLS’ SCHOOLS IN MANILA AND THE PROVINCES
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In 1861, the governor-general of the archipelago added the royal college of Santa Potenciana to the college of Santa Isabel.3 The former was composed of the orphan daughters of military men, and was a most ancient and beneficent institution, founded about the end of the sixteenth century by Perez Dasmariñas. It afforded shelter and protection to the orphan daughters of military men who had succumbed to the climatological influences of this country, or had died in the defense of their country.