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The Marist Brothers arrived at St. Michael School in Montreal, Canada, in September 1907. At the request of Father John P. Kiernan, founder and Pastor of St. Michael Parish, Rev. Brother Stratonique, A.G. negotiated the establishment of a Marist community of three brothers for the first year.
However, in 1885, the Brothers opened several schools in Canada, near Montreal and Quebec. There was a good fit: the Brothers in France were used to rural environments and the majority of schools opened in Canada were for French speaking farming families.
Two brothers were usually sent to staff each school, and a third brother to do the cooking, and a little practice teaching. Before Father Champagnat organized the teaching staffs, he trained Brother Jean Marie (Granjon) to direct the first community at La Valla.
In 1818 Champagnat opened the first Marist school whose timetable he designed in such a way to fit the farming needs of his parishioners (such as allowing children off school to help in the fields at planting and harvesting time).
Nov 10, 2021 · The systemic abuse of children in two residential schools run by the Marist Brothers was "shocking and distressing", a report has found. The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry examined the...
The Uvalde school shooting [8] was a mass shooting on May 24, 2022, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, where 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a former student at the school, fatally shot 19 students and 2 teachers, while injuring 17 others.
Sep 1, 2023 · The mass school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, coming nearly 10 years after the eerily similar massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, shook America to its roots.
