Today we are going to talk about the Essential Elements of Blessed Edmund Rice Christian Brother Education, which is a pretty long phrase. We will talk about this world by parts. Lets talk about the “Blessed Edmund Rice” part first. Edmund Rice was a Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist; a successful businessman, husband and father. He was also the founder of two religious institutes of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers, which will be the second part we are going to talk about. The Christian Brothers the Presentation Brothers was started in 1808 by seven staff including Edmund Rice, took religious vows under the authority of Bishop Power of Waterford, Following the example of Nano Nagle's Presentation Sisters, using the name Presentation Brothers which became the first and one of the few congregation ever founded by a lay man. The congregation was first founded to educate, clothe and feed the “quay kids” in Waterford. Other bishops in Ireland supplied Edmund Rice with men and these he prepared for the religious life and for a life of teaching. Then the started to spread out.…show more content… Which later became a real trouble when the brothers need to transfer from one school to another. So he sought approval from Pope Pius VII for the community to be made into a pontifical congregation with a Superior General. Ultimately he obtained this, and as Superior General he was then able to move brothers across diocesan boundaries to wherever they were most needed. In the 1820s further difficulties emerged owing to the expansion of the society and its becoming two distinct congregations. From this time on they were called Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers. Since than, Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers starts to spread out over the country, later, through out the
