The Catholic restoration gained ground in Sárospatak with the landowners' help. Zsófia Báthory gave the College's building to the vanguard of the Counter-Reformation, the Jesuits. In 1671 the members of the Reformed School had to run away. The teachers and the students were given shelter by Mihály Apafy, prince of Transylvania. They had tried to return to Sárospatak several times but they could only go back in 1703.