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Jean-Baptiste de La Salle () (; 30 April 1651 – 7 April 1719) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He is a saint of the Catholic Church and the patron saint for t ...
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, Kingdom of France
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of pontifical right
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(for men)
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, membership = 3,329 members as of 2020
, sec_gen = Br. Antxon Andueza, FSC
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, leader_name = Br. Armin A. Luistro, F.S.C.[
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The De La Salle Brothers, officially named the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools ( la, Fratres Scholarum Christianarum; french: Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes; it, Fratelli delle Scuole Cristiane) abbreviated FSC, is a Catholic
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lay religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men founded in France
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by Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle () (; 30 April 1651 – 7 April 1719) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He is a saint of the Catholic Church and the patron saint for t ...
(1651–1719), and now based in Rome
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, Italy. The De La Salle Brothers are also known as the Christian Brothers (sometimes by Lasallian organisations themselves), French Christian Brothers, or Lasallian Brothers. The Lasallian Christian Brothers are distinct from the Congregation of Christian Brothers
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, often also referred to as simply the Christian Brothers, or Irish Christian Brothers. The Lasallian Brothers use the post-nominal
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abbreviation FSC to denote their membership of the order, and the honorific title Brother, abbreviated "Br."
In 2021 the La Salle Worldwide website stated that the Lasallian order consists of about 3,000 Brothers, who help in running over 1,100 education centers in 80 countries with more than a million students, together with 90,000 teachers and lay
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associates. There are La Salle educational institutions in countries ranging from impoverished nations such as Nigeria to post-secondary institutions such as Bethlehem University
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(Bethlehem
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, Palestine
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), Manhattan College
Manhattan College is a private, Catholic, liberal arts university in the Bronx, New York City. Originally established in 1853 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Christian Brothers) as an academy for day students, it was la ...
(New York City
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), College Mont La Salle
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(Ain Saadeh
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, Lebanon
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), and La Salle University
La Salle University () is a private, Catholic university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The university was founded in 1863 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools and named for St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle.
History
La ...
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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). The central administration of the Brothers operates out of the Generalate in Rome, Italy and is made up of the Superior General and his councillors.
A number of Lasallian institutions have been accused of, and have admitted and apologised for, long-standing and serious physical and sexual abuse against their charges.
History
In March, 1679, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle met Adrian Nyel
Adrian Nyel was a 17th-century French educator. Nyel was a layman, who was in charge of the house for the poor in Rouen, France, where he also oversaw the education of poor boys, along with supervising poorly paid teachers. This charge was given ...
in a chance encounter at the Convent of the Sisters of the Infant Jesus
The Sisters of the Infant Jesus, also known as the Dames of Saint Maur, are a religious institute of the Catholic Church originating from Paris, France and dedicated to teaching.
History
Origins
In 1659 Barré, who was a respected scholar wi ...
. Nyel asked for La Salle's help in opening free schools for the poor boys in Reims. A novitiate and normal school were established in Paris in 1694. La Salle spent his life teaching poor children in parish charity schools. The school flourished and widened in scope; in 1725, six years after La Salle's death, the society was recognised by the pope, under the official title of "Brothers of the Christian Schools". La Salle was canonised as a saint on 15 May 1900. In 1950 Pope Pius XII
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declared him to be the "Special Patron of All Teachers of Youth in the Catholic Church".
The order, approved by Pope Benedict XIII
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in 1725,[ rapidly spread over France. It was dissolved by a decree of the ]National Assembly
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set up after the French revolution
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in February 1790, but recalled by Napoleon I
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in 1804 and formally recognised by the French government in 1808. Since then its members penetrated into nearly every country of Europe, Africa, America
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, Asia and Australia.
The order
As religious
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, members take the three usual vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.[Paul Joseph, Brother. "Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools." The Catholic Encyclopedia]
Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 26 January 2016 The Institutes headquarters is in Rome, Italy. The order has five global regions: North America (Région Lasallienne de l’Amérique du Nord, RELAN), Asia/Oceania (Pacific-Asia Regional Conference, PARC), Europe/Mediterranean (Région Lasallienne Européenne-Méditerranéenne, RELEM), Africa (Région Lasallienne Africano-Malgache, RELAF), and Latin America (Region Latinoamericana Lasallista, RELAL).
During the International Year of Literacy/Schooling (1990), the Unesco
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awarded the Noma Literacy Prize
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to Lasallian Institutions.
The order says that its key principles are faith, proclamation of the gospel, respect for all people, quality education, concern for the poor and social justice.
In 2017 the Institute had 3,800 brothers, 75% fewer than in 1965. The decline is due partly to many brothers reaching retirement age, and the small number of new recruits. In the same period the number of students in Lasallian schools increased from about 700,000 to over a million.
Superiors General
The following have served as Superior General of the De La Salle Brothers:
* 1986–2000: Br. John Johnston, FSC
* 2000–2014: Br. Álvaro Rodríguez Echeverría, FSC
* 2014–2022: Br. Robert Schieler, FSC
* From 2022: Br. Armin Luistro
Brother Armin Altamirano Luistro, FSC (born December 24, 1961) is a Filipino Lasallian Brother who served as secretary of the Department of Education of the Philippines under President Benigno Aquino III. Luistro entered De La Salle Scholastica ...
, FSC
Activities
Education
La Salle initiated a number of innovations in teaching. He recommended dividing up of the children into distinct classes according to their attainments. He also taught pupils to read the vernacular language.[
In accordance with their mission statement "to provide a human and Christian education ... especially othe poor" the Brothers' principal activity is education, especially of the poor. In 2021 the La Salle Worldwide website stated that the Lasallian order consists of about 3,000 Brothers, who help in running over 1,100 education centers in 80 countries with more than a million students, together with 90,000 teachers and ]lay
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*Lay Range, a subrange of mountains in British Columbia, Canada
*Lay, Loire, a French commune
*Lay (river), France
*Lay, Iran, a village
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* Lay (surname)
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associates.[
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Institutions
* The Guadalupana De La Salle Sisters were founded by Br. Juan Fromental Cayroche in the Archdiocese of Mexico. They currently teach in ten countries. The motherhouse is in Mexico City.
* The Congregation of the Lasallian Sisters was founded in 1966 by the Brothers of the Christian School in Vietnam to take care of the needs of poor children abandoned because of the civil war there. The office is in Bangkok.
* Lasallian Volunteers are lay people who volunteer for one or two years to engage in teaching and other Lasallian activities. They receive room and board and a living stipend.
Protection of the environment
English Lasallian lay brother and missionary Paul McAuley went to Peru in 1995 as part of his ministry in the Brothers of the Christian Schools, and set up a school in a poor shantytown in Lima; after a few years he was honoured with the British award of MBE Mbe may refer to:
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for his work. He gave the award away and said that he would otherwise have returned it in protest at British companies' activities in the rainforest. In 2000 he founded the La Salle Intercultural Student Community, a hostel for indigenous schoolchildren in Belén, a neighbourhood of the jungle city of Iquitos. He helped tribes in the Amazon rainforest
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to fight against oil and gas companies expanding into the rainforest; local news media described him as a "Tarzan activist", "white terrorist" and "incendiary gringo priest"; in July 2010 the Peruvian government revoked his residency permit
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for participating in activities "such as protest marches and other acts against the Peruvian state which constitute a breach of public order". He fought the expulsion in Peruvian courts and won his right to stay.
On 2 April 2019 his dead body was discovered in the hostel in Iquitos; his body had been burned after his death. Peru's episcopal conference praised McAuley and called on the authorities to investigate the crime.
Other activities
Investment services
In 1981, the Institute started Christian Brothers Investment Services, a " socially responsible investing service" exclusively for Catholic organisations, and that it "encourage companies to improve policies and practices through active ownership".
Winery
The Brothers arrived in Martinez, California
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, US, on the southern edge of the Carquinez Strait
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, part of the greater San Francisco Bay
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in 1868. In 1882 they began making wine for their own use at table and as sacramental wine
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. They also began to distill brandy, beginning with the pot-still production method that is used in the cognac
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region.[ Their production expanded until 1920, when prohibition limited their production to wines for sacramental use.
In 1932, at the end of Prohibition, they relocated the winery to the Mont La Salle property in the ]Napa Valley
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and continued making wine, in larger quantities. In 1935 Brother Timothy Diener became wine master, and he served in this position for 50 years. In the 1950s they acquired Greystone Cellars near St. Helena, California
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. Varietal wine was made at the Napa Valley facility, generic wine and brandy were produced at Reedley in the San Joaquin Valley
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, and barrel ageing
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was handled at Greystone.[
The Christian Brothers winery operated under the corporate name "Mont La Salle Vineyards". In 1988 the winery employed 250 people and produced 900,000 cases of wine, 1.2 million cases of brandy, and 80,000 cases of altar wine. Proceeds from sales helped to fund the Christian Brothers programs and schools, such as Cathedral High School in Los Angeles, and the care of ageing Brothers.
In 1989 the company was sold to ]Heublein, Inc. Heublein Inc. (also known as Heublein Spirits) was an American producer and distributor of alcoholic beverages and food throughout the 20th century. During the 1960s and 1970s its stock was regarded as one of the most stable financial investments, ...
The sacramental wine brand was purchased by four former Christian Brothers winery executives who carry on the production as a non-profit under the name "Mont La Salle Altar Wines". The Brothers retained the Mont La Salle property and have a retreat located there.
Child sexual abuse
In the Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry
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(HIA), an inquiry into institutional sexual and physical abuse in Northern Ireland institutions that were in charge of children from 1922 to 1995, the De La Salle Brothers admitted in 2014 to the abuse of boys at two institutions: the former De La Salle Boys' Home, Rubane House, in Kircubbin, County Down, and St Patrick's Training School in west Belfast, and apologised to its victims. The order accepted that one of its earliest overseers engaged in sexual offences. Representing the de la Salle order, Kevin Rooney QC said the brothers recognised that some of their members had caused "immense pain" to children which was "in contradiction to their vocation". Senior Counsel Christine Smith QC said, "... ose homes operated as outdated survivors of a bygone age."
According to Tom O'Donoghue, in contrast to the more elite boarding school, "...schools for the lower social orders usually had the highest pupil-teacher ratios, resulting in many turning to corporal punishment as a behavioural management strategy". He also notes, " ...they were often... placed in charge of huge numbers of children from troubled backgrounds at a time when there was no professional child-care training."
The Inquiry's first public hearings were held from January to May 2014 with the inquiry team reporting to the Executive by the start of 2016.[ Module 3: ''De La Salle Boys Home at Rubane House, Kircubbin'', started on 29 September 2014 and was completed on 17 December, when the chairman paid tribute to the victims who testified. By October 2014 about 200 former residents of Rubane House made allegations of abuse, and 55 alleged that they themselves were physically or sexually abused. Billy McConville, orphaned when his mother ]Jean McConville
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was abducted and shot by the IRA
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in 1972, waived anonymity and described repeated sexual and physical abuse, and starvation, at Rubane House. During the inquiry counsel for the De La Salle order said compensation had been paid, and accepted that some members had abused young boys at the home, but that the order believed that some claims "did not take place".
Brother Francis Manning FSC said that the order welcomed the inquiry. Before the abuse issue had become public a Brother wrote in a letter to an alleged abuser "It is best forgotten and I have told some brothers that no reference is to be made to it among themselves or the boys. The whole affair is best dropped with the prayer that all will learn that lesson that our holy rule is very wise in its prescriptions". The order conducted dozens of internal interviews in this case, but did not report the matter to police.
On 11 March 2022 statements of apology were made in the Northern Ireland Assembly
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by ministers from the five main political parties in Northern Ireland and by representatives of six institution where abuse had taken place, including Br Francis Manning representing the De La Salle Brothers. Several abuse survivors and their family members were critical of the apologies that were made by the institutional representatives.
In the 1960s the deputy headmaster of St Gilbert's approved school
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(for young minor offenders) run by brothers from the De La Salle order in Hartlebury
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, Worcestershire
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, England, was convicted of six counts of sexually abusing boys at the school. He was subsequently reinstated as a teacher at another school. In 2014, former pupils of the school described "a 30-year campaign of sadistic and degrading abuse" including rapes and beatings.[BBC News:Hymns and screams: Abuse at St Gilbert's approved school revealed, 1 December 2014. BBC News]
/ref> A headmaster, a deputy headmaster, and Brothers were reported to have been among those responsible. Police launched an investigation into allegations of abuse at the school between the 1940s and 1970s after former pupils were interviewed by BBC Hereford and Worcester
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, and documents intended to be unavailable until 2044 were released under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
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...
. In 2017 and 2018 two former staff members were tried for serious sexual offences, assault causing actual bodily harm
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, and child cruelty. They were acquitted of all charges other than three charges of child cruelty against one of the defendants, on which the jury was unable to reach a verdict.Other, named, abusers were reported to have died.[
There were other cases with many victims in countries including Scotland (St Ninian's in Gartmore, Stirlingshire; St Joseph's in Tranent; St Mary's in Bishopbriggs), Australia,] and Ireland.[ie/rpt/01-01.php Government of Ireland:Establishment of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (CICA):The De La Salle Brothers, 1.129–1.131]
/ref> Serious and detailed allegations about decades-old abuse have been reported in the US, with several lawsuits being settled in favour of victims. After the scandal became widely known, branches of the Order apologised, publicly or to individual victims, for several of these cases.[ At St William's residential school in ]Market Weighton
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, England, between 1970 and 1991 many boys were abused; 200 now-adult men have said they were abused. Abusers including the principal, James Carragher, were imprisoned in 2004 for past sexual abuse at the home. Five victims started High Court action for compensation in 2016. Four of the cases were dismissed in December 2016 The De La Salle order repeated their apologies for and condemnation of the abuse.
In Australia the , which started in 2013, reported in December 2013 that in the period 1 January 1996 to 30 September 2013, 2,215 complaints of abuse were received by the Catholic Church's ''Towards Healing'' programme, mostly relating to 1950–1980. "The Church authority with the largest number of complaints was the Christian Brothers, followed by the Marist and then the De La Salle Brothers. The most common positions held by the Church personnel and employees subject to a Towards Healing complaint at the time of the alleged incident were religious brother (43% of all complaints), diocesan priest
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(21% of all complaints) and religious priest (14% of all complaints)."
Investigations and trials continued into 2022 involving a number of other schools and the De La Salle order has only apologised where they have been legally found guilty and not where the allegations haven't been prosecuted. This had brought about a widespread condemnation from former, allegedly abused pupils who lack the evidence to bring about a prosecution.
Lasallian Saints and Blesseds
Saints
* Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle () (; 30 April 1651 – 7 April 1719) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He is a saint of the Catholic Church and the patron saint for t ...
(canonised on 24 May 1900)
* Bénilde Romançon (canonised on 29 October 1967)
* Miguel Febres Cordero
Francisco Luis Febres-Cordero y Muñoz (7 November 1854 – 9 February 1910), known as (later Saint) Miguel Febres Cordero and Brother Miguel, was an Ecuadorian Roman Catholic religious brother. He became a professed member of the Brothers of th ...
(canonised on 21 October 1984)
* Mutien-Marie Wiaux
Mutien-Marie Wiaux (also known as Mutien-Marie of Malonne; 20 March 1841 – 30 January 1917) was a Belgian member of the Brothers of Christian Schools, who spent his life as a teacher and is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.
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(canonised on 10 December 1989)
* Jaime Hilario Barbal
Jaime Hilario Barbal (2 January 1898 – 18 January 1937) – born Manuel Barbal i Cosán – was a Spanish Roman Catholic and a professed religious brother from the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He served for almost two d ...
(canonised on 21 November 1999)
* Cirilo Bertrán Sanz Tejedor and 7 Companions (canonised on 21 November 1999)
* Salomone Leclercq
Salomon Leclercq (15 November 1745 – 2 September 1792) – born ''Guillaume-Nicolas-Louis Leclercq'' – was a French friar. Leclercq assumed the religious name ''Salomon'' after he made vows in the Institute of the Brothers of the Christi ...
(canonised on 16 October 2016)
Blesseds
* Julian-Nicolas Rèche
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(beatified on 1 November 1987)
* Jean-Bernard Rousseau
Jean-Bernard Rousseau (22 March 1797 – 13 April 1867) was a French people, French Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic professed religious of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools – or the De La Salle Brothers. He assumed th ...
(beatified on 2 May 1989)
* Diego Ventaja Milán and 8 Companions (beatified on 10 October 1993)
* Jean-Baptiste Souzy and 63 Companions (beatified on 1 October 1995)
* Leonardo Olivera Buera and 5 Companions (beatified on 11 March 2001)
* Raphaël Rafiringa
Raphaël-Louis Rafiringa, De La Salle Brothers, FSC (born Firinga; 3 November 1856 – 19 May 1919) was a Catholic Church, Catholic religious brother from Madagascar who served as a De La Salle Brothers, De La Salle Brother at a time in his nation ...
(beatified on 7 June 2009)
* James Alfred Miller (beatified 7 December 2019)
See also
* List of Lasallian educational institutions
Lasallian educational institutions are educational institutions affiliated with the De La Salle Brothers, a Roman Catholic religious teaching order founded by French priest Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, who was canonized in 1900 and proclaim ...
References
External links
LaSalle.org, Web site of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools – La Salle
De La Salle Christian Brothers, Province of Great Britain
Brief history of the Lasallian Institute
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*Internet Archive
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The Congregation of Christian Brothers ( la, Congregatio Fratrum Christianorum; abbreviated CFC) is a worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church, founded by Blessed Edmund Rice.
Their first school was opened in Waterford, Ireland, ...
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