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Edmund Rice's birth
Callan, Country Kilkenny, Ireland to Robert and Margaret Rice -
Early Working Life
Apprenticed to his Uncle, who owned a merchant business, he moved into a house on the market parish of Ballybricken. He entered a business of trading livestock and other supplies, and supervising the loading of victuals onto ships bound for British colonies. -
Marriage
To Mary Elliot -
Wife's Death
The impact on Edmund was that he has to raise a disabled girl by himself. -
Builds Monastery
The Mount Sion monastery was officially blessed by Bishop Thomas Hussey on 7 June 1803.Since the schoolhouse was not yet finished, Rice, Finn, and Grosvenor took up residence but walked each day from Mt Sion to their schools on New Street and Stephen Street. -
Establishment of first school
Edmund’s schooling ministry began a new turning point in 1804, when he was joined with Thomas Grosvenor and Patrick Finn. Grosvenor and Finn, created their own school on new street, as well as joining in on Edmunds school. After the success of opening the New Street school, Edmund’s schoolhouse, still incomplete, adjoined with the New Street school and was officially opened and blessed by Bishop John Power on May 1 1804, when their pupils moved to the new building. -
Work with Nano Nagle
Seven staff, which had been working together creating religious education for boys around Ireland, joined together forming the ‘Presentation Brothers’. The ‘Presentation Sisters’, who was run by Nano Nagle, created this idea for them. -
) Takes vows as member of the Diocesan Society of the Presentation
Seven of the staff including Edmund Rice, took religious vows under the authority of Bishop Power of Waterford.Gradually a transformation had taken place amongst the "quay kids" of Waterford, largely attributed to the work of Edmund and his Brothers, who educated, clothed and fed the boys. -
Brothers continue to work across Ireland
Other bishops in Ireland supplied Edmund Rice with men, and these he prepared for the religious life and for a life of teaching. In this way the Presentation Brothers spread throughout Ireland.the communities were under the control of the bishop in each diocese rather than Edmund Rice, and this created problems when Brothers were needed to be transferred from one school to another. -
Brothers continue to work across Ireland
Other bishops in Ireland supplied Edmund Rice with men, and these he prepared for the religious life and for a life of teaching. In this way the Presentation Brothers spread throughout Ireland.the communities were under the control of the bishop in each diocese rather than Edmund Rice, and this created problems when Brothers were needed to be transferred from one school to another. -
Brothers continue to work across Ireland
Other bishops in Ireland supplied Edmund Rice with men, and these he prepared for the religious life and for a life of teaching. In this way the Presentation Brothers spread throughout Ireland.the communities were under the control of the bishop in each diocese rather than Edmund Rice, and this created problems when Brothers were needed to be transferred from one school to another. -
Brothers continue to work across Ireland
Other bishops in Ireland supplied Edmund Rice with men, and these he prepared for the religious life and for a life of teaching. In this way the Presentation Brothers spread throughout Ireland.the communities were under the control of the bishop in each diocese rather than Edmund Rice, and this created problems when Brothers were needed to be transferred from one school to another. -
Brothers continue to work across Ireland
Other bishops in Ireland supplied Edmund Rice with men, and these he prepared for the religious life and for a life of teaching. In this way the Presentation Brothers spread throughout Ireland.the communities were under the control of the bishop in each diocese rather than Edmund Rice, and this created problems when Brothers were needed to be transferred from one school to another. -
Brothers continue to work across Ireland
Other bishops in Ireland supplied Edmund Rice with men, and these he prepared for the religious life and for a life of teaching. In this way the Presentation Brothers spread throughout Ireland.the communities were under the control of the bishop in each diocese rather than Edmund Rice, and this created problems when Brothers were needed to be transferred from one school to another. -
Formation of the presentation brothers
This was the first congregation of men to be founded in Ireland and one of the few ever founded by a layman.Gradually a transformation had taken place amongst the "quay kids" of Waterford, largely attributed to the work of Edmund and his Brothers, who educated, clothed and fed the boys -
First school opening in England
The congregation of Irish Christian Brothers spread to Liverpool and other parts of England.These new ventures were not always immediately successful. -
Presentation Brothers become known as Christian Brothers and continue educating
Similarly, a mission to Sydney, Australia in 1842 failed within a couple of yearsBrother Ambrose Treacy established a strong presence in Melbourne, Australia in 1868, in 1875 in Brisbane, Australia and in 1876 a school was commenced in Dunedin, New Zealand.