biography
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Rice, (Edmund) Ignatius
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| lived:
| (1762–1844)
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| biography:
| Philanthropist and religious founder, born near Callan, Co Kilkenny, SE Ireland. A wealthy provision merchant in Waterford, he retired from business on the death of his wife (1789) and devoted himself to good works. He founded a school in Waterford for poor boys (1802), and many others elsewhere. In 1808 he took religious vows, and founded the order now known as the Christian Brothers (sanctioned by the pope in 1820). He was superior-general of the order as Brother Ignatius until 1838. |
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