No notions are given by any of the biographers about eventual private tuition. It is accepted that V. Scheppers went to the “Begijnenschool” and also to the school of the priest Moons at the parish of Saint John.

When he was 12 years old, he received Holy Communion for the first time, as it was usual those days, and later on he was enrolled in the school of J.B. Verlooy, a late oratorical person who had opened a private school, first in the “Begijnenstraat”, later on in the Saint - Johnstreet.

When V. Scheppers went to the Saint Joseph College in “Aalst” in 1818 to study humanities, his family had already had a lot of tragedies. Victor lost his sister Jeanne in 1813, his mother in 1815 and his sister Catherine in 1817. His father was left alone with two sons, Victor and Joseph.

 

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