Brothers of the Christian Schools
The brothers of the Christian schools or school brothers , in Latin Fratres Scholarum Christianarum ( order abbreviation : FSC ), are a Catholic male order that primarily accepts lay brothers .
The community was in France earlier Ignorantins is in England and North America, De la Salle Brothers in Italy Carissimi and in Poland Braci szkolni called.
history
Saint Jean Baptiste de La Salle founded a free school for the poor in Reims in 1679 and in 1681 accepted some poor school teachers in his house. From this arose on May 25, 1684 the Congregation of Brothers of Christian Schools . La Salle wrote the rules of the order for the new community until 1698 . The community had its headquarters in Paris in 1688 and in Rouen since 1705 .
As innovations, they introduced classroom teaching in their schools, French instead of Latin as the language of instruction and forbade corporal punishment. They were attacked by the Jansenists and only received from Louis XV on September 28, 1724 . the royal and on January 26, 1725 by Benedict XIII. the papal approbation .
On August 18, 1792, 121 schools attended by around 30,000 students were closed during the French Revolution . Many school brothers were imprisoned and some were executed. On December 3, 1803, the community was re-admitted by Napoleon .
In the 19th century, the congregation expanded worldwide. During the Kulturkampf she was banned from Prussia from 1872 to 1917 .
In Germany the brothers of the Christian schools are no longer represented. But you operated z. B. in the Bavarian Illertissen the Gymnasium Kolleg of the school brothers Illertissen . In Austria there are four De La Salle schools in Vienna. The Stephaneum secondary school in Bad Goisern in Upper Austria on Lake Hallstatt was closed in 2012 after 109 years.
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The American Robert Schieler has been the general superior since 2014 . With around 4,000 brothers in 79 countries around the world, they are among the largest fraternities in the Catholic Church today .
The seat of the Order is in Via Aurelia 476 in Rome.
The costume consists of a black cassock with a white cup .
General Superior
- Barthélemy Truffet (1717–1720)
- Timothée Bazin (1720–1751)
- Claude Nivet (1751–1767)
- Florence Boubel (1767–1777)
- Agathon Gonlieu (1767–1798)
- Frumence Herbet (1798-1810)
- Gerbaud Thomas (1810-1822)
- Guillaume-de-Jésus Marre (1822-1830)
- Anaclet Constantin (1830-1838)
- Philippe Bransiet (1838–1874)
- Jean-Olympe Paget (1874–1875)
- Irlide Cazaneuve (1875-1884)
- Joseph Josserand (1884-1897)
- Gabriel-Marie Jean-Antoine (1897–1913)
- Imier de Jésus Lafabrègue (1913-1923)
- Allais-Charles Petiot (1923-1928)
- Adrien Petiot (1928–1934)
- Junien Victor Détharré (1934–1940)
- Arèse-Casimir Bression (1940-1946)
- Athanase Ritimann (1946–1952)
- Dionysius van Jezus De Schepper (1952–1956) ( Vicar General )
- Nicet-Joseph Loubet (1956–1966)
- Charles Henry Buttimer (1966–1976)
- José Pablo Basterrechea (1976-1986)
- John Johnston (1986-2000)
- Álvaro Rodríguez Echeverría (2000-2014)
- Robert Schieler (since 2014)
literature
- Petronius Paltram: Pedagogy of St. Johann Baptist de la Salle and the Christian school brothers . Herder, Freiburg i. B. 1911
- Konradin Zähringer: The school brothers of St. Johannes Baptist de La Salle . Paulusverlag, Freiburg / Switzerland 1962
Web links
- Entry on Brothers of Christian Schools in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Homepage of the Brothers of Christian Schools
- Portal of the DE LA SALLE schools Austria
Individual evidence
- ^ Regions and Districts | La Salle.org. Retrieved August 23, 2017 (American English).
- ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Local history: Illertissen: How the college came into being . In: swp.de . May 28, 2018 ( swp.de [accessed August 29, 2018]).
- ^ De La Salle Austria , website of the Provincial School Brothers, Sector Austria, accessed on May 3, 2017
- ↑ Illustrations of the school brothers' habit: 1 , 2 , 3
