The college has for its Patron, St. John Berchmans who was born in Belgium on March 13, 1599. In his youth, John was marked among his companions for his gentle and affectionate kindness and for his conscientious sense of duty. His devotion to his invalid mother in her long sickness demonstrated a characteristic virtue. At the age of seventeen he entered the Society of Jesus. Within the Society, he became a student model of fidelity, adopting himself to the norms of his order. He was sent to Roman College for his philosophical studies, which he accomplished with such great success that in the third year he was chosen for the post of defender in the scholastic disputations. It was returning from these disputations that he was seized with a violent fever from which he died, August 13, 1621.

St. John Berchmans’ sanctity was manifested, not in the practice of great austerities, nor in special gifts of prayer, but in the practice of perfection. His motto was "Do what you do wholeheartedly". Under his patronage the college aspires to develop young men and women of character. Each student can so develop if he or she strives to imitate St. John Berchmans who tried to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.