Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. V, 1950 Religious orders Religious institutes

Presentation Brothers

FRATELLI DELLA PRESENTAZIONE

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BROTHERS OF THE PRESENTATION. - In 1802, at Waterford, Edmund Ignatius Rice founded the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools of Ireland (v.) for the instruction and religious formation of youth, which assumed a definite character and juridical status when Pius VII approved it in 1820.

Its spread in Ireland was rapid, but when the question arose of uniting the houses under a superior general, those existing in the diocese of Cork, at the insistence of the bishop Msgr. Murphy, preferred to remain independent, thus coming to form a new autonomous institute under the name of the B. of the P., later approved by Leo XIII in 1889. The constitutions received pontifical approval in 1899. Today it numbers 1915 religious with 45 houses: in Ireland, England, Canada and India.

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BIBL.: P. J. Hennessy, E. I. Rice, in Cath. Enc., XII, 1, pp. 40-41; Irish catholic directory and almanac, Dublin 1940, pp. 430-31.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), coll. 1707–1708.

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Mattei, Silverio. “Fratelli della Presentazione.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, coll. 1707–1708. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/fratelli-della-presentazione.

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Mattei, Silverio. “Fratelli della Presentazione.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 1707–1708. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/fratelli-della-presentazione.

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  author    = {Mattei, Silverio},
  title     = {Fratelli della Presentazione},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {1707--1708},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/fratelli-della-presentazione}
}

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