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Formed by merger of St. Francis Xaviers College (Marist Brothers) for boys and St Josephs College (Mercy Sisters) for girls. The college now caters for boys and girls, Years 8 to 12 on the site of the old Marist Brothers College (St Francis Xavier). Campion College: 1960: Gisborne: New Zealand: Secondary: Catholic College Sale [1] 1979: Sale ...
The Marist Brothers of the Schools, commonly known as simply the Marist Brothers, is an international community of Catholic religious institute of brothers. In 1817, Marcellin Champagnat, a Marist priest from France, founded the Marist Brothers with the goal of educating young people, especially those most neglected. While most of the brothers ...
In the same year, the Brothers established the Collège Mariste Notre-Dame de Lourdes in Byblos. In 1911, two Brothers from Ottoman Syria founded a school in Betafo, Madagascar. However, in 1914, the Ottomans expelled foreigners and transformed Marist schools into barracks, forcing the Brothers to flee to Ital] and take refuge near Turin. [2]
The College educates 1700 students from Years 5 to 12, 170 of whom are boarders, and provides wide-ranging programs encompassing academics, the visual and performing arts, sports and service projects. [2] [3] The ethos and mission of the College are influenced by the founder of the Marist Brothers, Saint Marcellin Champagnat. [2] [3]
Red Bend Catholic College is an independent Roman Catholic co-educational secondary day and boarding school located in Forbes in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The College is run by the Marist Brothers, a religious institute. Established in 1926, the College has enrolled approximately 800 students from Year 7 to Year 12.
The Marist Brothers are a religious institute of brothers and affiliated lay people founded near Lyon in France in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest of the Marist Fathers. The Marist Brothers are not clerics, but are devoted to educational work throughout the world and now conduct primary and secondary schools, academies ...
The Marist Brothers of the Schools (FMS), commonly known as the Marist Brothers, is a congregation of men who devote their lives to Christian education throughout the world, running Catholic schools or otherwise for the training and guidance of youth.
The college was established in 1974, by the Marist Brothers, as Galen College, a senior campus (Yrs 11 and 12) for both male and female students.Most of its students came from the long-established St Joseph's Girls College and Champagnat Boys College, an agricultural boarding school; these two schools amalgamated and formed the current Galen College.