Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Manila

At the south ends of Intramuros, on the site of a former nunnery and Jesuit house. The nunnery was founded by Mother Ignacia of the Holy Ghost (1663-1748), who as the daughter of a Chinese father and a Filipino mother was unable to enter one of the regular convents, which were open only to women of Spanish stock: whereupon she gathered a number of nuns round her and founded an order which still exists, the Sisters of the Virgin Mary.

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