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Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, the founder of the De La Salle Brothers. The De La Salle Brothers, officially named the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (Latin: Fratres Scholarum Christianarum; French: Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes; Italian: Fratelli delle Scuole Cristiane) abbreviated FSC, is a Catholic lay religious congregation of pontifical right for men founded in France ...
The institute confers higher degrees in ecclesiastical studies on behalf of the Catholic Church. The school took its present form in 1969 through a fusion of two university religious departments: the Neapolitan Theology Department of the University of Naples (Italian: Facoltà Teologica Napoletana) and the Jesuits' San Luigi Theology College ...
The Sons of Divine Providence is a Catholic religious institute founded in Italy in 1893 by Luigi Orione. Orione began his work with orphans and street children in the city of Tortona in north-west Italy while he was still a student. On October 15, 1895, Orione opened his first boarding school, titled the Little House of Divine Providence.
St. Stephen's was founded in 1964 by Dr. John O. Patterson, the former Headmaster of the Kent School in Connecticut. Patterson and his team of educators selected Rome because of its rich history and proximity to some of the major moral, artistic, philosophical, and political antecedents of the Western world.
Annunziata Boarding School), currently known as Educandato Statale Santissima Annunziata, was the first female boarding school to be founded in Florence, dating back to 1823. Originally intended for the daughters of Marquis Gino Capponi , the institute was created to educate aristocratic and noble girls, under the patronage of Maria Anna of ...
Jesuit schools in Italy (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Catholic schools in Italy" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Many of the colleges have traditionally taken students from particular national or ethnic groups, those from particular regions in Italy, and those from the various Eastern Catholic churches. The colleges are halls of residence in which the students follow the usual seminary exercises of piety, study in private, and review the subjects treated ...
Pisa Cathedral, a notable example of Romanesque architecture, in particular the style known as Pisan Romanesque [5]. The 2012 Global Religious Landscape survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (an American think tank) found that 83.3% of Italy's residents were Christians, 12.4% were irreligious, atheist or agnostic, 3.7% were Muslims and 0.6% adhered to other religions. [6]