23 Facts About Piarists

Piarists, known as the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools or simply Scolopi or Escolapios, is a religious order of clerics regular of the Catholic Church founded in 1617 by Spanish priest Joseph Calasanz.

The Piarists have had a considerable success in the education of physically or mentally disabled persons.

Piarists then opened schools in Narni, which is located 42 miles from Rome and is where he completed writing his Constitutions, Moricone, Magliano, and Norcia, Carcare, and Fonano.

The Piarists became entangled in church politics, and partially because they were associated with Galileo, were opposed by the Jesuits, who were more orthodox in astronomy.

Piarists was declared "Universal Patron of all the Christian popular schools in the world" by Pope Pius XII, in 1948, because he had the glory of opening "the first free tuition, popular, public school in Europe" and had proclaimed the right to education of all children, fought for it, and was persecuted because of this.

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Piarists first established a community outside the continent of Europe in 1767 when the Piarist Father Basilio Sancho was appointed as the 17th Archbishop of Manila in 1765, having been recommended for the position by King Charles III.

The four other Piarists helped Archbishop Sancho plan the First Provincial Synod of Manila.

The Piarists worked in the seminary as well as at St Joseph's School, which had previously been run by the Jesuits.

Bishop Anthony M Claret asked the Piarists to establish a college for the formation of Cuban teachers in Guanabacoa, and the first canonical foundation established in the Americas was in Cuba in 1857.

In 1897, the Piarists established the first teacher's college in Puerto Rico in Santurce, but the fathers returned to Spain following the Spanish–American War.

The parish was quite large with 20,000 parishioners, and after the Piarists left the parish in 1961, eight Piarists began teaching Cuban refugee children.

The Piarists established a presence in Bolivia in 1992, which became a Vicariate in 2007.

Piarists established their first school in the United States in New Orleans in the early 20th century, but it did not last long.

In May 1947, the Piarists were offered the care of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Pasadena, and in 1951, the Archbishop entrusted to them Mary Help of Christians Parish in east Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, Bishop John O'Hara of Buffalo was contacted by two different Piarists and said that he would welcome the Piarists into his diocese.

Piarists was assigned to St Thomas Aquinas Parish, where he celebrated daily Mass and assisted on weekends, and he taught Latin at Bishop Timon, a diocesan high school.

That same year, the Piarists established a House of Studies in Washington, DC, and the following year, the Piarists bought the former Lea Estate in Devon, PA and opened Devon Preparatory School in it the following year.

In 1990, Back in New York City, in 1953, the Piarists were given permission to reside in the rectory of St Nicholas Church, and in 1957, Cardinal Spellman gave his permission to create a canonical house.

The Piarists bought the building, and they owned it until 1978 when they were entrusted with Annunciation Parish in upper Manhattan.

The Piarists were entrusted with St Helena Parish and St Helena School in the Bronx in 2014.

The Piarists first went to Africa in 1963, establishing an Apostolic Mission in the Senegal, which became a vice-province in 1997 and then the West African Province in 2013 along with Guinea-Gabon.

Piarists are exempt from episcopal jurisdiction and subject only to their general superior, who is elected every six years by the general chapter.

Piarists declared that a special Plenary Indulgence would be granted in all churches, chapels, shrines, and parishes where the Piarist Fathers are present to all of the faithful on the occasion of a jubilee celebration, provided they have fulfilled the other necessary requirements to gain the indulgence.