. The Bishop's school, Prior Park, Bath. , and established a School for Junior and also forEcclesiastical Students which did excellent work for many years,notwithstanding the difficulties under which Catholics then laboured. In January, 1856, the School was discontinued, but was re-openedby Bishop Clifford in 1867, and the greatest exertions were made by thatvenerable and saintly Prelate to improve the Colleges and bring themthoroughly abreast of modern requirements. The beautiful Roman Church was opened on the occasion ofBishop Cliffords Jubilee in 1882. On his death in 1893, the Mansion Hous
. The Bishop's school, Prior Park, Bath. , and established a School for Junior and also forEcclesiastical Students which did excellent work for many years,notwithstanding the difficulties under which Catholics then laboured. In January, 1856, the School was discontinued, but was re-openedby Bishop Clifford in 1867, and the greatest exertions were made by thatvenerable and saintly Prelate to improve the Colleges and bring themthoroughly abreast of modern requirements. The beautiful Roman Church was opened on the occasion ofBishop Cliffords Jubilee in 1882. On his death in 1893, the Mansion House and Colleges were leasedto the Irish Christian Brothers, who for seven years carried on an ex-cellent School. It was felt, however, that, contrary to its second foundersintentions, the establishment had ceased to be a centre of diocesaninterests, and accordingly one of the first cares of Bishop Burton on hisaccession to the See of Clifton was to bring it into close touch with theDiocese by resuming its immediate direction and 4
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