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  • This Day in Lasallian History

October 12 1933

October 12th, 2019|

On Columbus Day, Bishop Loughlin Memorial HS in Brooklyn (Green and Clermont Aves.) was dedicated by Bishop Thomas Molloy. This ministry is named for the first bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn. Bro. Angelus Gabriel [...]

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October 11

October 11th, 2019|

October 11 was chosen as the Feast Day of St. Pope John XXIII because that was the date in 1962 when he opened the Second Vatican Council. Lasallians should know that before he was elected [...]

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October 10 1837

October 10th, 2019|

Four pioneering French Brothers, led by Bro. Aidant, sailed from Le Havre (France) and arrived about one month later in Montreal (Canada) to launch Lasallian education in North America. Their first school opened in Montreal [...]

Eagle Scout Builds Grotto

October 9th, 2019|

Nick Notoris, second from right, stands in front of the newly constructed grotto at St. John Paul II Academy in Boca Raton with his parents and Bishop Gerald M. Barbarito, who blessed the [...]

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October 9

October 9th, 2019|

This is the Feast Day of Saints Jaime Hilario, Cirilo Bertran and companions. Bro. Jaime was executed during the Spanish Civil War in the city of Tarragona (Province of Tarragona) on January 18, 1937. Earlier, [...]

2019 Christmas Card Contest

October 8th, 2019|

So they went in haste... The District of Eastern North America (DENA) presents the 11th annual Christmas Card Contest, open to middle school students in 7th and 8th grades, as well as all high school students [...]

International Day of the Girl

October 7th, 2019|

DENA Celebrates the International Day of the Girl Since 2012, 11 October has been marked as the International Day of the Girl. The day aims to highlight and address the needs and challenges girls [...]

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October 7

October 7th, 2019|

Each October 7 is the Feast Day of Our Lady of the Rosary. The official rosary of the Christian Brothers consists of six decades of beads, not the usual five, because the Brothers were greatly [...]

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October 6 1794

October 6th, 2019|

After a trial the day before, Brother Moniteur was executed on a guillotine during the French Revolution. W. J. Battersby [FSC], The History of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in the [...]

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October 5 1916

October 5th, 2019|

Fire devastated Christian Brothers College, the only Catholic boarding school in the St. Louis (MO) area, killing six firemen, two invalid Christian Brothers, a male nurse, and a night watchman. W. J. Battersby [FSC], The [...]

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October 4 1870

October 4th, 2019|

During the Franco-Prussian War, the Prussian bombardment of Paris began and gradually intensified. The Brothers' generalate (headquarters), then located on the Rue Oudinot, was hit fifteen times. W. J. Battersby [FSC], History of the Institute [...]

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October 3 1979

October 3rd, 2019|

During his first visit to the U.S. as leader of the world's Catholic, Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass at Logan Circle in Philadelphia for over one million people. Representing the Christian Brothers was Bro. [...]

Brother Michael Honored by Providence Police

October 2nd, 2019|

Pictured, L to R - Brother Michael, Commissioner Steven Paré, Linda D'Amario Rossi, Tides Family Services Board Chair, and Beth Bixby, Tides Family Services' CEO. Providence, RI – Brother Michael Reis was [...]

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October 2 1906

October 2nd, 2019|

The stately, new motherhouse of the Legacy New York District at Pocantico Hills (Westchester County, NY) was dedicated. It replaced the facility at Amawalk (NY), in the same county. Bro. Angelus Gabriel (FSC), The Christian [...]

Calvert Hall 175th Anniversary Mass

October 1st, 2019|

Baltimore, MD - More than 600 people are expected to arrive at The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen on Sunday, October 6, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Calvert Hall College High [...]

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October 1

October 1st, 2019|

Each October 1 is "International Music Day." Music has often been a component of Lasallian education. Even Junior Novices of the Legacy Baltimore District at Ammendale (MD) were all given violin lessons during the mid-1920s. [...]

  • This is the season for crisp mornings and leaves of vibrant red and gold. This solitary leaf appeared in stark black and gray when it was published in the Bulletin de l’Institut des Freres des Ecoles Chretiennes (January 1951, p. 47). Its simplicity, however, was artistically transformed by an unknown New York artist with this image of St. John Baptist de La Salle.

October 2019

October 1st, 2019|

This is the season for crisp mornings and leaves of vibrant red and gold.  This solitary leaf appeared in stark black and gray when it was published in the Bulletin de l’Institut des Freres des [...]

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September 30 2019

September 30th, 2019|

Today is the Feast Day of St. Jerome. In his meditation for this day, De La Salle wrote "If you wish to be filled with the mind of God and entirely fit for your work, [...]

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September 29 1928

September 29th, 2019|

The building housing the District headquarters, the Novitiate, and Junior Novitiate of the District of New Orleans-Santa Fe, located on the property known as Magnolia in Lafayette (LA), were formally dedicated, with Bishop Jeanmard of [...]

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September 28 1724

September 28th, 2019|

The government of King Louis XV granted letters-patent to the Institute, five years after De La Salle's death. Thus the existence and functioning of the Motherhouse at St. Yon (near Paris) was approved, and the [...]

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September 27 2019

September 27th, 2019|

This is the Feast Day of Blessed Brother Scubilion (surname Rousseau; 1797-1867), the Christian Brother who known as the catechist of the enslaved natives of the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. He was [...]