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PIOUS SCHOOLS CALASANZ MOVEMENT PIETY / SPIRIT PIARIST FATHERS =EVANGELIZATION 15.000 Young people and adults accompanied by =EDUCATION IN FAITH about 1,000 educators and living in processes FOUNDER of integration in the Pious Schools through 750 groups in 15 countries and 9 demarcations. “Integral Education, from the PIARIST Gospel, of children and youth, XXI & preferably poor, for social FRATERNIDADES ESCOLAPIAS CHARISM CENTURY Religious and lay people transformation” sharing charism and life in CALASANZ 909 78 small communities in 40 Founder of the first Popular Christian School of Europe and places and 10 countries. of the Piarist Fathers, was born in 1557, in Peralta de la Sal (, Spain). LETTERS ITAKA-PIARISTS NETWORK =CULTURE In countries like Spain and Argentina November =EDUCATION PROMOTING WORKS IN SHARED MISSION 27 is commemorated as the Teachers Day in 150 remembrance of St. . 10 DEMARCATIONS 6 FRATERNITIES 19 COUNTRIES 226 134.625 2 197 138 1.354 works of Non students universities schools parishes religious Formal Education PIARISTS IN THE WORLD THE GREAT PRESENT IN 40 COUNTRIES CALASANCTIAN Piarist Sisters FOUNDRESS: PAULA MONTALT. 1845 EUROPE FAMILY FF. Cavanis AMERICA Vorselaar FOUNDERS: BROTHERS CAVANIS. 1835 Spain, Italy, France, , Slovakia, Czech Republic, FOUNDER: LUIS VICENTE Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Austria and Romania DONCHE. 1834 Cavanis Sisters United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Puerto Calasanctian Rico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. > SAPIENTIA Calasanziane Sisters Budapest. FOUNDER: FAUSTINO Hungary Sisters MÍGUEZ. 1910 FOUNDRESS: CELESTINA ASIA DONATI. 1889 > UNIVERSIDAD CRISTÓBAL COLÓN Veracruz. México > UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALENCIA India, Japan, Vietnam, Instituto Universitario San José Indonesia, Philippines Kalasantiner FOUNDER: ANTON MARIA de Calasanz SCHWARTZ. 1882

Provolo Institute AFRICA Provolo Sisters FOUNDER: ANTONIO PROVOLO. 1937 Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Burkina > UTAC Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, San José de Costa Rica Senegal, Mozambique, D.R. Congo OUR LOGO The crown contained today between the cross and the top of the A, was > ICALDE added after 1619. Calasanz Institute of the Right for Education The anagram results of the overlapping of the first and the last New foundations letter of the name of Maria. In this way it proclaims the greater glory under consideration of the Blessed : to be the mother of the incarnated Verb. Abbreviations of the two Greek words Meter Theu (Mother of God). The shield is surrounded by a Crown of rays, some straight, other GUATEMALA, HAITI, NIGERIA, CHINA, TIMOR-ESTE wavy, which according to Fr. Caputi are golden (raggi d’oro) and mean “the glory that the Blessed Virgin deserves”.

“In I’ve found the 1557 way to serve God by 1597 1617 1621 1857 1950 1963 doing good to children He founds the first free Foundation of the Pauline Gregory XV elevated the First foundation First foundation First foundation in Calasanz is born and I will not leave it for Popular School in the Congregation of Clerics Congregation to the degree of in America: in Asia: Yokohama Africa: Oussouye anything in this world” Trastevere of Rome Regular Poor of the Mother Religious Order with the name of Guanabacoa (Cuba) (Japan) (Senegal) of God of the Pious Schools. “Pious Schools”. In 1622 it would be approved by the Church.

PIARIST BIRTH Paulo V GROWTH EXPANSION MILESTONES Updated: May 2019