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Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice, was a Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist. Edmund was the founder of two religious institutes of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers.
May 14, 2024 · Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice was the founder and first superior general of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools of Ireland (commonly called the Christian Brothers), a congregation of male nonclerics devoted exclusively to educating youth.
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Edmund Ignatius Rice, F.P.M., C.F.C. ( Irish: Éamonn Iognáid Rís; 1 June 1762 – 29 August 1844) was a Catholic missionary and educationalist. He was the founder of two religious institutes of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers .
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Dec 19, 2022 · Edmund Rice lived over 250 years ago. In this retelling of his life and times, Br Sean McManus draws upon his broad insights into how Edmund grew from business person, family man, to teacher and Brother - his powerful intellect, his connections and his vision.
Since 1791 the United Irishmen, under Wolfe Tone, were open to Catholic members in an attempt to show that Catholics and Protestants could live and work in harmony. Edmund witnessed the futile rebellion of 1798 and saw how the Act of Union of 1800 failed to grant Catholic Emancipation.
Edmund Rice Global Network engaged with the needs of people marginalised by poverty, discrimination, lack of education or ecological degradation.
The spiritual awakening of the Spanish Counter-Reformation in the 16th century, through the spirituality of Teresa of Avila (1515-82), John of the Cross (1542-91) and Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), became a source of inspiration for the dawn of a new encounter with the divine within Christian France.
