Also known as:
French: Frères de l'Instruction Chrétienne de Ploërmel
BROTHERS OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION OF PLOËRMEL. - Institute founded in 1817 at Saint-Brieuc (France), for the education of the children of the common people, by the priest the venerable Jean Marie Robert de La Mennais, who in 1824 transferred the mother house of the Institute to Ploërmel, which soon spread throughout the departments of Brittany. From 1873, the F. of P. began their work in various French colonies: Martinique (1837), Guadeloupe (1838), Senegal (1841), St-Pierre et Miquelon (1842), Guiana (1843), Tahiti (1859).
In the Antilles, the F., at once government teachers and catechists, gathered together, after school, the negroes of every age, or rode on horseback through the sugar-cane plantations to evangelize the natives. In 1848, when the emancipation of the slaves was proclaimed, the colonial authorities invoked the work of the F. to calm the uprising and avert the massacre of the whites. At the death of the founder (1860), the Institute numbered more than a thousand religious; at present it comprises 2,044 professed members and novices, 615 postulants, 260 elementary, middle, agricultural and technical schools, attended by 57,000 pupils. The successors of the venerable de La Mennais faced enormous difficulties in extending the work in not a few countries: Haiti (1864), Canada (1886), United States, Spain, Egypt, England (1903), Italy (1921), Uganda (1926), Argentina (1933). On 13 March 1891, the F. of P. were canonically recognized by the Holy See and on 1 March 1910 their constitutions were definitively approved by Pius X.
Bibliography3 worksAnnales de l'Institut des Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes, Paris 1883; Précis d'histoire de l'Institut des Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes, par
BIBL.: Annales de l'Institut des Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes, Paris 1883; Précis d'histoire de l'Institut des Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes, par un frère, ibid. 1934; G. Rigault, Histoire générale de l'Institut des Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes, 8 vols., ibid. 1937-40.
Sovereignia de l'Institut de Ploërmel, Vannes 1905; R. P. Lavellie, Le Prêtre Cyprien, Paris 1910; Institut des Prêtres de l'Instruction chrétienne de P., ibid. 1923; J. Cavalcau, Les idées pédagogiques du vin, Jean-Marie Robert de La Manant, ibid. 1929.
Vittorio, Ippolito, and Giorgio Rigault. “Fratelli Dell'Istruzione Cristiana di Ploërmel.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, p. 1016. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/fratelli-dell-istruzione-cristiana-di-ploermel.
MLA
Vittorio, Ippolito, and Giorgio Rigault. “Fratelli Dell'Istruzione Cristiana di Ploërmel.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, p. 1016. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/fratelli-dell-istruzione-cristiana-di-ploermel.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec5_fratelli_dell_istruzione_crist,
author = {Vittorio, Ippolito and Rigault, Giorgio},
title = {Fratelli Dell'Istruzione Cristiana di Ploërmel},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/fratelli-dell-istruzione-cristiana-di-ploermel}
}
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