Colégio Marista Dom Silvério, or CMDS, is a private Marist school located on the southern region of

Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte is the List of largest cities in Brazil, sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population of around 2.3 million, and the third largest metropolitan area, containing a population of 6 million. It is the List of cities in Sout ...

, in

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. Its courses go from pre-school to high school, which in the Brazilian educational system is usually identified with ages from 4 to 17. CMDS was founded in 1950, and hosts more than 3,000 students. Part of the school's finances were used for the seven-year-long construction of Marista Hall. The school is named after Dom Silvério Gomes Pimenta, a Catholic priest of the early twentieth century who was a member of the

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, the Brazilian Academy of Literature. The current principal of CMDS is Professor Edison de Souza Leite.

Alumni

* Priscila Fantin * Frei Betto

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