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In 1928, the Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross founded St. James Trade School on a beautiful campus in Springfield, IL, serving young men who could not afford high school or college. In 1929, the Ursuline Sisters opened Springfield Junior College. Both institutions flourished, but eventually the trade school closed in 1972 and Junior College in 2014. Bishop Paprocki, Springfield’s current ordinary, has welcomed San Damiano College as the restoration of the mission of these two schools, with the the goal of integrating man’s labor with a well-examined, and prayerful life.

The still-extant buildings of the original trade school stand ready, along with an adjoining campus built by the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis, and with the Bishop’s blessing, the support of local tradesmen, Franciscans Brothers and Sisters, and the Norbertine religious order, College will welcome its first class in the fall of 2025 to these historic buildings.