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Rh East in 1763 was only seven. Under Clement XIV (1769-1774) the Jesuits again retired and secular priests came back. The Revolution put an end to the college altogether for a time. Gregory XVI (1831-1846) reopened it in 1845, admitting fifteen students, eight Ruthenians, four Melkites, and three Italo-Albanians. In 1849 Pius X (1846-1878) founded four burses for Rumanians. In 1886 Leo XIII made Resurrectionists rectors; three years later he gave the college back to the Jesuits.

Then came the last great change. In 1897 Leo XIII first founded a special Ruthenian College, which was endowed by the Emperor of Austria. The Ruthenians of the Greek College went to this. Then the Greek College, now only for Greeks of the Byzantine rite, was entrusted to the Benedictines; they are to accommodate forty students. The students attend lectures at Propaganda; but they have their own courses of Greek, Canon Law, liturgy, and such subjects as interest them particularly.

The Greek College has produced a surprising number of great men. Ever since it was founded many famous people in Greece and all over the Levant owed their education to it. These are by no means all priests. For instance, a number of physicians were educated there, who afterwards became famous in their own country. The college also sent professors of Greek language and letters to Italian universities: Padua, Venice, Pisa, Bologna, Naples. It educated many monks for Grottaferrata and other monasteries. It has fulfilled the object of its foundation by sending countless Catholic missionaries to the East, to Greece, the Greek islands, the Slav countries, and so on.

Among so many famous students we may notice especially Allatius and Arcudius. Leo Allatius (Allacci) is certainly the most distinguished of all, perhaps the most learned Greek since Photius. He was born at Chios in 1586, when it was a Venetian possession. He was always a Catholic. Quite young, he came first to Naples; then, in 1599, he entered the Greek College at Rome. He studied medicine at first, so that among his many accomplishments he was also a skilled physician. But he soon gave up the profession of medicine in order to devote himself to letters. He became scriptor at the Vatican library; from now till his death in 1669 he gradually acquired erudition in all branches of Greek studies, and wrote a vast number of learned dissertations which obtained for him more than a European reputation. There seems no branch of