Santo Antonio hill and church, Aracaju, State of Alagoas, Brazil
The Archdiocesan Seminary Sacred Heart of Jesus was founded on April 4, 1913 by Bishop José Thomas Gomes da Silva in order to train young people for the priesthood.
The first headquarters of this institution worked in the very residence of Dom José, in Praça Camerino, n. 181, and later transferred to the building located on the block of land between São Vicente, Espírito Santo, Itabaiana and Pacatuba streets, now home to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Archdiocesan College. In the year 1980, the seminary changed its facilities to the old farm Paul VI in the Industrial district, where it works until today.
Considered a landmark in higher education in Sergipe, this establishment was responsible for the academic, cultural and religious formation of countless young people, some of them nationally known, such as Dom Miranda Vilas-Boas and Dom Avelar Brandão Vilela.
Over the course of these ninety-six years of existence, twenty-six presidents have run this house, among them the work of its founder Dom José Thomas and of Mons. José Carvalho de Souza, who for twenty-two years has run this institution.
Currently Archbishop José Palmeira Lessa, with the collaboration of his clergy and the people of God, maintains the Archdiocesan Sacred Heart of Jesus Seminary working with a group of Propedeutic, introductory phase to the discipline of the seminary and review of the studies of the middle level .
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