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CALASANZ MOVEMENT

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In countries like Spain and Argentina November 27 is commemorated as the Teachers Day in remembrance of St. Joseph Calasanz.

Religious and lay people sharing charism and life in 78 small communities in 40 places and 10 countries.

Young people and adults accompanied by about 1,000 educators and living in processes of integration in the Pious Schools through 750 groups in 15 countries and 9 demarcations.

1597He founds the first free Popular School in the Trastevere of Rome

1621Gregory XV elevated the Congregation to the degree of Religious Order with the name of “Pious Schools”. In 1622 it would be approved by the Church.

1617Foundation of the Pauline Congregation of Clerics Regular Poor of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools.

“In Rome I’ve found the way to serve God by

doing good to children and I will not leave it for

anything in this world”

1857First foundation in America: Guanabacoa (Cuba)

1950First foundation in Asia: Yokohama (Japan)

1963First foundation in Africa: Oussouye (Senegal)

BIRTH GROWTH EXPANSION

15.000

909XXI

CENTURY

GUATEMALA, HAITI, NIGERIA, CHINA, TIMOR-ESTE

SAINT JOSEPH CALASANZ

FOUNDER

Founder of the first Popular Christian School of Europe and of the Piarist Fathers, was born in 1557, in Peralta de la Sal (Aragon, Spain).

AFRICAGabon, Equatorial Guinea, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mozambique, D.R. Congo

AMERICAUnited States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.

EUROPESpain, Italy, France, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Austria and Romania

ASIAIndia, Japan, Vietnam,Indonesia, Philippines

134.625 students

PRESENT IN 40 COUNTRIES

226 works of Non Formal Education

138 parishes

197schools

1.354 religious

2universities

> UNIVERSIDAD CRISTÓBAL COLÓN Veracruz. México

> UTAC San José de Costa Rica

> SAPIENTIA Budapest. Hungary

FOUNDER: ANTON MARIA SCHWARTZ. 1882

FOUNDER: ANTONIO PROVOLO. 1937

FOUNDER: FAUSTINO MÍGUEZ. 1910

Calasanctian Sisters

Kalasantiner

Calasanziane Sisters

Piarist SistersFOUNDRESS: PAULA MONTALT. 1845

FOUNDRESS: CELESTINA DONATI. 1889

FF. Cavanis

Cavanis Sisters

Provolo InstituteProvolo Sisters

FOUNDERS: BROTHERS CAVANIS. 1835

1557Saint Joseph Calasanz is born

THE GREATCALASANCTIANFAMILY

New foundationsunder consideration

The anagram results of the overlapping of the first and the last letter of the name of Maria. In this way it proclaims the greater glory of the Blessed Virgin: to be the mother of the incarnated Verb.

Abbreviations of the two Greek words Meter Theu (Mother of God).

The crown contained today between the cross and the top of the A, was added after 1619.

The shield is surrounded by a Crown of rays, some straight, other wavy, which according to Fr. Caputi are golden (raggi d’oro) and mean “the glory that the Blessed Virgin deserves”.

OUR LOGO

PIARIST CHARISM

“Integral Education, from the Gospel, of children and youth, preferably poor, for social transformation”

PROMOTING WORKS IN SHARED MISSION150DEMARCATIONS FRATERNITIES COUNTRIES10 6 19

> UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALENCIA Instituto Universitario San José de Calasanz

> ICALDE Calasanz Institute of the Right for Education

VorselaarFOUNDER: LUIS VICENTE

DONCHE. 1834

Updated: May 2019

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