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About SSC

St. Stanislaus College, known to all Guyanese as "Saints" is a co-educational High school located in Georgetown, Guyana.

St. Stanislaus College was founded on May 1st,1866 as the all-boy Catholic Grammar School that was operated by the Jesuits. On November 13, 1907, the College moved to the present Brickdam site and was named Saint Stanislaus College in honor of St. Stanislaus Kostka.

The college became co-educational in 1975 and became a government school in 1976, after being a  Catholic institution for 110 years.

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The College Crest has the cross fleury and the horse-shoe in azure and argent in alternate quarters. The horse-shoe is taken from the family coat of arms of the Kostkas, to which family St. Stanislaus belonged.

One of his ancestors invented the spiked horse-shoe, which gained a valuable victory over the Russian Cossacks. The engagement took place across a frozen river. The Polish cavalry were enabled easily to rout the enemy, whose horses floundered and slipped, whilst their own horses had a firm grip on the ice.

The Kostka family was permitted to put the horse-shoe on its shield in commemoration of the event. The spikes on the shoe have now been transformed into crosses.

 

Saints Motto:

                          The Saints motto, Aeterna non Caduca", was one of the sayings of St. Stanislaus.

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                           It may be translated as:

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                                                    "I LIVE NOT FOR TIME, BUT FOR ETERNITY".

      

 

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