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Before 2007, the French part of Saint Martin was a commune belonging to the French overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. Despite seceding from Guadeloupe in 2007 and gaining more autonomy as an overseas collectivity of France, Saint Martin has remained an outermost region of the European Union and is part of the eurozone .
Saint Martin's University is a private Benedictine university in Lacey, Washington. It was founded in 1895 as a boys' boarding school run by monks of the Benedictine Order. Saint Martin's began offering college-level courses in 1900 and became a degree-granting institution in 1940. The college became coeducational in 1965.
The Community of Saint Martin is a public association of clerics according to pontifical law, gathering Roman Catholic priests and deacons. It was founded in 1976 by Father Jean-François Guérin , a priest from the Archdiocese of Tours (France), under the protection of Cardinal Giuseppe Siri , Archbishop of Genoa (Italy).
Ancient relics date the island's first settlers, probably the Ciboney (a subgroup of Arawaks), back to 3,500 years ago. [citation needed] Then another group of Arawaks migrated from South America's Orinoco basin around 800 A.D. [citation needed] Because of St. Martin's salt-pans they called it "Soualiga," or "Land of Salt."
The University of St. Martin (USM) is a university in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, founded in 1989. The USM has about 350 part and full-time students, and more than 800 alumni. The USM has about 350 part and full-time students, and more than 800 alumni.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Collectivity of Saint Martin: The Collectivity of Saint Martin ( French : Collectivité de Saint-Martin ) is an overseas collectivity of France located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea . [ 1 ]
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design was formed in 1989 from the merger of the Central School of Art and Design, founded in 1896, and Saint Martin's School of Art, founded in 1854. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Since 1986 both schools had been part of the London Institute , formed by the Inner London Education Authority to bring together seven London ...
In 1963 Saint Martin's became a Voluntary Aided Co-ed Catholic School and in 2014 it converted to an Academy, part of the St Dominic's Multi-Academy Trust. This Trust was incorporated into the St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Multi-Academy Trust in 2018, a federation incorporating all the state-funded Catholic Schools in Leicestershire.