Editing Santa Maria sopra Minerva (section)

===Offices of the Inquisition===
On 14 September 1628, by papal decree, the convent of Minerva was designated as the seat of the [[Congregation of the Holy Office]]. It thus became the place where the tribunal of the [[Roman Inquisition]] set up by Paul III in 1542 held the Secret Congregation meetings during which the sentences were read out.<ref name=Seminario>{{cite web|url=http://en.camera.it/4?scheda_informazioni=38 |title=Palazzo del Seminario (The Seminario Palace) |publisher=Chamber of Deputies |access-date=2013-12-19}}</ref>  It was in a room of the Minerva Convent on 22 June 1633 that the father of modern astronomy [[Galileo Galilei]], [[Galileo affair|after being tried for heresy, abjured his scientific theses, i.e. those of the Copernican theory]].<ref name=Seminario/>

In the late 18th and early 19th century the suppression of religious orders hampered the mission of the Order and the College of St. Thomas. During the French occupation of Rome from 1797 to 1814 the college declined and even briefly closed its doors from 1810 to 1815.<ref>{{cite book|first=Christopher J. |last=Renz|publisher=Dominican School|year=2009|isbn=9781883734183 |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8qt63uOg6IC|access-date=2011-04-24|title=In This Light Which Gives Light: A History of the College of St. Albert the Great (1930-1980)}}</ref>  The Order gained control of the convent once again in 1815, only for it to be expropriated by the Italian government in 1870.

In 1873 the ''Collegium Divi Thomæ de Urbe'' was forced to leave the Minerva for good, eventually being relocated at the convent of [[Santi Domenico e Sisto|Saints Dominic and Sixtus]] in 1932 and being transformed into the [[Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas|Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, ''Angelicum'']] in 1963.

The Dominicans eventually were allowed to return to the Minerva and part of the convent.