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

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, 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 KM de Vantagens Hall (originally known as the Marista Hall) is an events centre in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, located on the campus of the Colégio Marista Dom Silvério. The goal was to create an environment with a great diversity of spaces. I ...

. 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

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