the supposition that saint peter's college attained benjamin da costa's funds through an 'interesting legal argiment' are baseless benjamin da costa had many links with the church of england in his will he specifically requested that his estate in adelaide was to be alloted to the collegiate school of saint peter it was never the intention that da costa's assets were to be given to the catholic church many people presume that since da costa was of spanish origin he was to give his estate to the catholic church september auhc