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{{Short description|Catholic religious teaching congregation}}
{{For|a different Catholic religious institute also commonly known as "Christian Brothers"|Congregation of Christian Brothers}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}}
{{Infobox organization
| name                     = Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
| native_name              = {{langx|la|Institutum Fratrum Scholarum Christianarum }}<br />{{langx|fr|Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes}}
| image                    = Signum Fidei.jpg
| image_size               = 175px
| caption                  = 
| abbreviation             = FSC<ref>{{Cite web |title=Identity & Mission |author=<!--not stated--> |website=De La Salle Philippines |date=2019 |url= https://www.delasalle.ph/identity-mission}}</ref>
| nickname                 = Lasallians<ref name="auto">[http://www.gcatholic.org/orders/161.htm Lasalians, De La Salle Brothers]</ref>
| named_after              = 
| formation                = {{start date and age|1725|p=yes}}
| founder                  = [[Jean-Baptiste de la Salle]]
| founding_location        = [[Reims]], [[Kingdom of France]]
| type                     = Lay [[religious congregation]] of [[pontifical right]] (for men)
| status                   = 
| purpose                  = Education
| methods                  = 
| headquarters             = Via Aurelia 476, Rome, Italy<ref name="auto"/>
| region                   = Worldwide
| services                 = Education
| membership               = 2,883 members as of 2023
| sec_gen                  = Antxon Andueza<ref name=members46>{{Cite web |title=Members of the Chapter |publisher=La Salle - 46th General Chapter|date=2020|url= https://fsc46gc.lasalle.org/miembros-del-capitulo-2/?lang=en }}</ref>
| leader_title             = [[Superior General]]
| leader_name              = [[Armin Luistro|Armin A. Luistro]]<ref name=supgen/><ref name=members46/>
| leader_title2            = Vicar General
| leader_name2             = Carlos Gabriel Gómez Restrepo<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fsc46gc.lasalle.org/2022/05/19/eleccion-del-hermano-vicario-general/|title=Elección del Hermano Vicario General|publisher=La Salle - 46th General Chapter|date=19 May 2022}}</ref>
| leader_title3            = Motto
| leader_name3             = {{langx|la|Signum Fidei}}<br>English''':''' ''Sign of Faith''
| main_organ               = Generalate
| parent_organization      = [[Catholic Church]]
| website                  = {{URL|lasalle.org}}
}}

[[File:John baptist de la salle 1.jpg|thumb|Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, the founder of the De La Salle Brothers]]

The '''De La Salle Brothers''', officially named the '''Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools''' ({{langx|la|Fratres Scholarum Christianarum}}; {{langx|fr|Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes}}; {{langx|it|Fratelli delle Scuole Cristiane}}) abbreviated '''FSC''', is a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[Laity|lay]] religious congregation of [[pontifical right]] for men founded in [[Kingdom of France|France]] by [[Jean-Baptiste de La Salle]] (1651–1719), now based in [[Rome]], Italy. The De La Salle Brothers are also known as the '''Christian Brothers''' (sometimes by Lasallian organisations themselves<ref name=univ>{{cite web | title=The Christian Brothers at La Salle University | website=La Salle University | date=4 January 2023<!--from page source-->| url=https://www.lasalle.edu/christian-brothers/|quote=The Christian Brothers are at the heart of everything}}</ref>), '''French Christian Brothers''', or '''Lasallian Brothers'''. The Lasallian Christian Brothers are distinct from the [[Congregation of Christian Brothers]], often also referred to as simply the Christian Brothers, or Irish Christian Brothers.<ref>{{Cite CE1913|wstitle=Christian Brothers of Ireland|first=John Luke|last=Slattery|quote=The schools of the Irish Christian Brothers are of many types ... the Christian Brothers' schools ...}}</ref> The Lasallian Brothers use the [[post-nominal]] abbreviation '''FSC''' to denote their membership of the order, and the honorific title Brother, abbreviated "Br."

The Lasallian order stated that {{As of|2023|12|lc=y}} the Institute had 2,883 Brothers, who helped in running 1,154 [[Lasallian educational institutions|education centers]] in 78 countries with 1,160,328 students, together with 107,827 teachers and [[Laity|lay]] associates.<ref name=numbers>{{cite web | title=Statistics 2023 of Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools | website=La Salle Worldwide | url=https://www.lasalle.org/en/statistics-2023-of-institute-of-the-brothers-of-the-christian-schools/ |date=20 May 2024}} Summary of statistics as of December 2023, with link to detailed 136-page report.</ref> There are La Salle educational institutions in countries ranging from impoverished nations such as Nigeria to post-secondary institutions such as [[Bethlehem University]] ([[Bethlehem]], [[Palestine]]), [[Manhattan University]] ([[New York City]], US), [[College Mont La Salle]] ([[Ain Saadeh]], Lebanon), and [[La Salle University]] ([[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], US).<ref>Morgan, G., F.S.C., '' Lasallian Education – 150 Years in Toronto'', 2001.</ref> The central administration of the Brothers operates out of the Generalate in Rome and is made up of the [[Superior general (Christianity)|Superior General]] and his councillors.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

A number of Lasallian institutions in several countries have been accused of, and have admitted and apologised for, long-standing and serious physical and sexual abuse against their charges.

==History==
{{Historical population|||||1719|275|||1792|925|||1819|2,325|||1874|10,250|||1900|14,000|||||||||||||||2019|4,000||| 2021|3,000|||2023|2883|title = Historical numbers}}
{{Main|Jean-Baptiste de La Salle}}
In March 1679, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle met the teacher [[Adrian Nyel]] in a chance encounter at the Convent of the [[Sisters of the Infant Jesus]]. Nyel asked for La Salle's help in opening free schools for the poor boys in Reims. A novitiate and normal school were established in Paris in 1694.<ref name=spindler>{{cite dictionary| editor-last=Anderson | editor-first=Gerald H. |title=La Salle, Jean Baptiste de| dictionary=Biographical dictionary of Christian missions | publisher=Macmillan Reference USA | publication-place=New York | date=1998|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQ8BFk9K0ToC&pg=PA384|via=Google Books| isbn=0-02-864604-5 | oclc=36017191 | page=384}}</ref> Then the brothers decided collectively to take what is called a "vow of association" that is still performed today.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Luistro|first=Armin|title=De La Salle Brothers Overview|url=https://www.dlsu.edu.ph/brothers/|date=1998-11-25}}</ref> This initial vow required the brothers to stay together and interact with their community, instead of living in separate monasteries or isolated convents such as in the priesthood.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lasallian Association for Mission|url=https://www.lasalleigbm.org/association|date=March 27, 2025}}</ref><ref name="rules">{{Cite web|title=THE RULE OF THE BROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS|url=https://www.lasalle.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Rule_2015_eng_ame.pdf|publisher=[[Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools]]|location=[[Rome]]|date=September 8, 2015}}</ref> La Salle spent his life teaching poor children in parish charity schools. The school flourished and widened in scope; in 1725, six years after La Salle's death, the society was recognised by the pope, under the official title of "Brothers of the Christian Schools".<ref name=EB1911>{{EB1911 |inline=y |wstitle=La Salle, St Jean Baptiste de |volume=16 |page=231}}</ref> La Salle was canonised as a saint on 15 May 1900. In 1950, [[Pope Pius XII]] declared him to be the "Special Patron of All Teachers of Youth in the Catholic Church".<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Patron Saint of Teachers|url=https://www.cbu.edu/about/lasallian-tradition/st-john-baptist-de-la-salle/|publisher=Christian Brothers University}}</ref>

The order, approved by [[Pope Benedict XIII]] in 1725,<ref name=Paul/> rapidly spread over France. It was dissolved by a decree of the [[National Assembly (French Revolution)|National Assembly]] set up after the [[French Revolution]] in February 1790, but recalled by [[Napoleon I]] in 1804 and formally recognised by the French government in 1808. Since then its members penetrated into nearly every country of Europe, Africa, [[Americas|America]], Asia and Australia.<ref>C. Moe, "Hardly a soft landing: the first Australian foundation of the De La Salle Brothers – Armidale 1906", ''Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society'' vol 28 (2007), pp. 67–73.</ref>

==The Order==
As [[Religious (Catholicism)|religious]], members take the three usual vows of [[poverty, chastity, and obedience]].<ref name=Paul>{{Cite CE1913|wstitle=Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools|first=Paul|last=Joseph}}</ref> The Institute's headquarters is in Rome, Italy. The order has five global regions: North America (Région Lasallienne de l’Amérique du Nord, RELAN), Asia/Oceania (Pacific-Asia Regional Conference, PARC), Europe/Mediterranean (Région Lasallienne Européenne-Méditerranéenne, RELEM), Africa (Région Lasallienne Africano-Malgache, RELAF), and Latin America (Region Latinoamericana Lasallista, RELAL).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lasallian.info/about/regions/ |title=Regions – Christian Brothers Conference |newspaper=Lasallian Region of North America |access-date=29 January 2016 |archive-date=21 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160221140217/http://www.lasallian.info/about/regions/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

During the International Year of Literacy/Schooling (1990), the [[UNESCO]] awarded the [[Noma Literacy Prize]] to Lasallian Institutions.

The order says that its key principles are faith in the presence of God, concern for the poor and social justice, inclusive community, respect for all people, and quality education.<ref name=misionstatement>{{cite web |url= https://www.lasallian.info/lasallian-family/5-core-principles/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219053154/http://www.lasallian.info/lasallian-family/5-core-principles/|archive-date=19 February 2015|title=5 Core Principles|website=Christian Brothers Conference |publisher=Lasallian Region of North America|date=2012}}</ref>

In 2017 the Institute had 3,800 brothers, 75% fewer than in 1965. The decline is due partly to many brothers reaching retirement age, and the small number of new recruits. In the same period the number of students in Lasallian schools increased from about 700,000 to over a million.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thecatholicspirit.com/special-sections/vocations/christian-brother-reflects-on-life-future-of-lasallian-tradition/ |title=Christian brother reflects on life, future of Lasallian tradition|website= Thecatholicspirit.com |date=6 January 2016  |author=Susan Klemond |access-date= 14 March 2016}}</ref>

===Superiors General===
{{incomplete list|date=June 2020}}
The following have served as Superior General of the De La Salle Brothers:

* 1717–1720   Br. Barthélemy (Joseph Truffet), FSC
* 1720–1747   Br. Timothée (Guillaume Samson Bazin), FSC
* 1751–1767   Br. Claude (Pierre Nivet), FSC
* 1767–1777   Br. Florence (Jean Boubel), FSC
* 1777–1787   Br. Agathon (Joseph Gonlieu), FSC
* 1795–1810   Br. Fumence (Jean-Baptiste Herbet), FSC
* 1810–1822   Br. Gerbaud (Sébastien Thomas), FSC
* 1822–1830   Br. Guilluame de Jésus (François Marre), FSC
* 1830–1838   Br. Anaclet (Claude Louis Constantin), FSC
* 1838–1874   Br. Philippe (Mathieu Bransiet), FSC
* 1874–1875   Br. Jean-Olympe (Joseph Paget), FSC
* 1875–1884   Br. Irlide (Pierre Jean Cazaneuve), FSC
* 1884–1897   Br. Joseph (Joseph Marie Josserand), FSC
* 1897–1913   Br. Gabriel Marie Joseph (Joseph Marie Josserand), FSC
* 1913–1923   Br. Imier de Jésus (Antoine LaFabrègue), FSC
* 1923–1928   Br. Allais Charles (Jean Petiot), FSC
* 1928–1934   Br. Adrien (Petiot), FSC
* 1934–1940   Br. Junien Victor (Auguste Détharré), FSC
* 1940–1946   Br. Arèse-Casimir, FSC
* 1946–1952   Br. Athanase Émile (Louis-Arthur Ritman), FSC
* 1946–1956   Br. Denis-de-Jésus (Alphonse-Louis de Schepper), FSC - Vicar General
* 1956–1966:  Br. Nicet Joseph Loubet, FSC
* 1966–1976:  Br. Charles Henry Buttimer, FSC
* 1976–1986:  Br. José Pablo Basterrechea, FSC
* 1986–2000:  Br. John Johnston, FSC<ref>{{Cite web |title=Death of Br. John Johnston |publisher=Lasallian Family, Hong Kong |date=11 October 2007|url= http://www.lasalle.org.hk/pages/news/death_johnston.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114022619/http://www.lasalle.org.hk/pages/news/death_johnston.htm|archive-date=14 November 2017 }}</ref>
* 2000–2014: Br. [[Álvaro Rodríguez Echeverría]], FSC
* 2014–2022: Br. [[Robert Schieler]], FSC
* From 2022: Br. [[Armin Luistro]], FSC<ref name=supgen>{{Cite web |title=Election of the new Superior General of the Brothers of the Christian Schools |author= |website=La Salle Worldwide |location=Rome |date=18 May 2022 |url= https://www.lasalle.org/en/86520/}}</ref>

==Activities==
===Education===
{{Main|Lasallian educational institutions}}
La Salle initiated a number of innovations in teaching. He recommended dividing up of the children into distinct classes according to their attainments. He also taught pupils to read the vernacular language.<ref name=Paul/>
 
In accordance with their mission statement "to provide a human and Christian education ... especially [to] the poor" the Brothers' principal activity is education, especially of the poor. The Lasallian order stated that {{As of|2023|12|lc=y}} the Institute had 2,883 Brothers, who helped in running 1,154 [[Lasallian educational institutions|education centers]] in 78 countries with 1,160,328 students, together with 107,827 teachers and [[Laity|lay]] associates.<ref name=numbers/>

===Institutions===
* The Guadalupana De La Salle Sisters were founded by Br. Juan Fromental Cayroche in the Archdiocese of Mexico. {{As of|2025}}, they teach in twelve countries. The motherhouse is in [[Mexico City]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hgs.org.mx/|title=HGS - Hermanas Guadalupanas de La Salle|website=www.hgs.org.mx|access-date=5 June 2025|archive-date=10 May 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250510003552/http://hgs.org.mx/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The Congregation of the Lasallian Sisters was founded in 1966 by the Brothers of the Christian School in Vietnam to take care of the needs of poor children abandoned because of the civil war there. The office is in [[Bangkok]].<ref name=Lorg>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lasalle.org/en/who-are-we/lasallian-family/la-salle-sisters/|title=La Salle Sisters|publisher=La Salle.org|access-date=21 December 2022|archive-date=16 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816132405/https://www.lasalle.org/en/who-are-we/lasallian-family/la-salle-sisters/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Lasallian Volunteers were lay people who volunteered for one or two years to engage in teaching and other Lasallian activities.<ref name="MyUser_Lasallianvolunteers.org_29_January_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www.lasallianvolunteers.org/volunteers/what-lvs-do/ |publisher=Lasallian Volunteers|title=what lvs do|year=2016|archive-date=31 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131135600/http://www.lasallianvolunteers.org/volunteers/what-lvs-do/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> They received room and board and a living stipend.<ref name=benefits>{{cite web | title=Benefits|publisher=Lasallian Volunteers|year=2021| url=https://www.lasallianvolunteers.org/volunteers/benefits/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207005752/https://www.lasallianvolunteers.org/volunteers/benefits/ | archive-date=7 February 2023 | url-status=dead}}</ref> The Lasallian Volunteers program ended on June 30, 2022, after 32 years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lasallian.info/who-we-are/lasallian-volunteers/|title=Lasallian Volunteers|publisher=lasallian.info|access-date=2025-06-05}}</ref>

===Protection of the environment===
English Lasallian lay brother and missionary Paul McAuley went to Peru in 1995 as part of his ministry in the Brothers of the Christian Schools, and set up a school in a poor shantytown in [[Lima]]; after a few years he was honoured with the British award of [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]] for his work. He gave the award away and said that he would otherwise have returned it in protest at British companies' activities in the rainforest. In 2000, he founded the La Salle Intercultural Student Community, a hostel for indigenous schoolchildren in Belén, a neighbourhood of the jungle city of [[Iquitos]]. He helped tribes in the [[Amazon rainforest]] to fight against oil and gas companies expanding into the rainforest; local news media described him as a "Tarzan activist", "white terrorist" and "incendiary gringo priest". In July 2010, the Peruvian government revoked his [[residency permit]] for participating in activities "such as protest marches and other acts against the Peruvian state which constitute a breach of public order." He fought the expulsion in Peruvian courts and won his right to stay.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=collegian|date=11 April 2019|page=3|title=Christian Brother found dead in Peru|journal=The La Salle Collegian|volume=92|issue=20|publisher=La Salle University|location=Philadelphia}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=English Brother risks all for the Indians|last=de Jersey |first=Marc |newspaper=Catholic Herald |date=30 July 2010 |url= https://catholicherald.co.uk/from-our-archives-english-brother-risks-all-for-the-indians/}} Reissued 3 April 2019</ref>

On 2 April 2019, his dead body was discovered in the same hostel he founded in Iquitos; his body had been burned after his death. Peru's episcopal conference praised McAuley and called on the authorities to investigate the crime.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Peru: British environmental activist was dead before his body was burned |last=Collyns |first=Dan |newspaper=The Guardian |date=5 April 2019 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/04/peru-iquitos-paul-mcauley-british-activist }}</ref>

===Other activities===
====Investment services====
In 1981, the Institute started Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS),<ref>{{cite web | title=Who we are | website=CBIS | date=10 August 2022<!--from page source-->| url=https://cbisonline.com/eu/who-we-are/ }}</ref> a "[[Socially responsible investing|socially responsible investing service]]" exclusively for Catholic organisations, saying that it "encourage[s] companies to improve policies and practices through active ownership".<ref>{{Cite report|url=https://cbisonline.com/us/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/07/CBIS_OVERVIEW_2014_v6.4.pdf|date=21 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128034422/https://cbisonline.com/us/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/07/CBIS_OVERVIEW_2014_v6.4.pdf|version=6.4|archive-date=28 January 2016|title=CBIS: Overview 2014}}</ref>

====Winery====
The Brothers arrived in [[Martinez, California]], US, on the southern edge of the [[Carquinez Strait]], part of the greater [[San Francisco Bay]] in 1868. In 1882 they began making wine for their own use at table and as [[sacramental wine]]. They also began to distill [[brandy]], beginning with the [[pot still|pot-still]] production method that is used in the [[cognac]] region.<ref name=Berger/> Their production expanded until 1920, when prohibition limited their production to wines for sacramental use.

In 1932, at the end of [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]], they relocated the winery to the Mont La Salle property in the [[Napa Valley AVA|Napa Valley]] and continued making wine, in larger quantities. In 1935 Brother Timothy Diener became wine master, and he served in this position for 50 years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Christian-Brother-Timothy-pioneer-in-wine-2667749.php|title=Christian Brother Timothy -- pioneer in wine industry|first=Karola|last=Saekel|date=3 December 2004|website=SFGATE|access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref> In the 1950s they acquired [[Culinary Institute of America at Greystone|Greystone Cellars]] near [[St. Helena, California]]. Varietal wine was made at the Napa Valley facility, generic wine and brandy were produced at [[Reedley, California|Reedley]] in the [[San Joaquin Valley]], and [[Barrel#Beverage maturing|barrel ageing]] was handled at Greystone.<ref name=Berger/>

The Christian Brothers winery operated under the corporate name "Mont La Salle Vineyards". In 1988 the winery employed 250 people and produced 900,000 cases of wine, 1.2 million cases of brandy, and 80,000 cases of altar wine.<ref name=Berger/> Proceeds from sales helped to fund the Christian Brothers programs and schools, such as [[Cathedral High School (Los Angeles)|Cathedral High School]] in [[Los Angeles]], and the care of ageing Brothers.<ref name=wines/>

In 1989, the vineyards were sold to [[Heublein, Inc.]] The sacramental wine brand was purchased by four former Christian Brothers winery executives who  {{As of|2025|lc=y}} carry on production under the name "Mont La Salle Altar Wines".<ref name=wines>{{cite web | title=Since 1882| website=Mont La Salle Altar Wines |access-date=21 June 2025| url=https://montlasallealtarwines.com/}}</ref> The Brothers retained the Mont La Salle property and have a retreat located there.<ref name=Berger>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-05-17-fi-264-story.html|title=Christian Bros. Winery Is Sold to Heublein|first=Dan|last=Berger|date=17 May 1989|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref>

==Controversial incidents==
===Child sexual abuse===
<section begin=Controversies involving Catholic organizations transclusion/>In the [[Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry]] (HIA), an inquiry into institutional [[Catholic Church sexual abuse cases|sexual and physical abuse]] in Northern Ireland institutions that were in charge of children from 1922 to 1995,<ref name=abusebackground>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-25637486|title=Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry - the background|date=13 January 2014|access-date=21 December 2022|website=BBC News}}</ref> the De La Salle Brothers admitted in 2014 to the abuse of boys at two institutions: the former De La Salle Boys' Home Rubane House in Kircubbin, [[County Down]], and St Patrick's Training School in west [[Belfast]], and apologised to its victims. The order accepted that one of its earliest overseers engaged in sexual offences.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/rubane-house-like-hell-upon-earth-for-69-year-old-branded-a-liar-for-reporting-his-abuse-as-boy-30643584.html|title=Rubane House 'like Hell upon Earth' for 69-year-old branded a liar for reporting his abuse as boy|first=Harriet|last=Crawford|date=7 October 2014|newspaper=Belfast Telegraph}}</ref> Representing the de la Salle order, Kevin Rooney QC said the brothers recognised that some of their members had caused "immense pain" to children which was "in contradiction to their vocation".<ref>{{cite news| title=De La Salle brothers apologise for abuse |first=Maeve|last=Connolly| newspaper=The Irish News | date=15 January 2014 | url=http://www.irishnews.com/news/2014/01/15/news/de-la-salle-brothers-apologise-for-abuse-80943/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202207/http://www.irishnews.com/news/2014/01/15/news/de-la-salle-brothers-apologise-for-abuse-80943/ | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=live}}</ref> Senior Counsel Christine Smith QC said, "...[T]hose homes operated as outdated survivors of a bygone age."<ref>{{cite web | last=McDonald | first=Henry | title=Sisters of Nazareth become second Catholic order to admit to child abuse | website=the Guardian | date=14 January 2014 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/14/de-la-salle-brothers-order-admits-abuse-boys-care-home}}</ref>

The Inquiry's first public hearings were held from January to May 2014 with the inquiry team reporting to the Executive by the start of 2016{{Update after|2016|3|1}}.<ref name="abusebackground" /> Module 3: ''De La Salle Boys Home at Rubane House, Kircubbin'', started on 29 September 2014 and was completed on 17 December,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-30517195|title=Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry tribute to witnesses|date=17 December 2014|access-date=21 December 2022|website=BBC News}}</ref> when the chairman paid tribute to the victims who testified. By October 2014 about 200 former residents of Rubane House made allegations of abuse, and 55 alleged that they themselves were physically or sexually abused. Billy McConville, orphaned when his mother [[Jean McConville]] was abducted and shot by the [[Irish Republican Army|IRA]] in 1972, waived anonymity and described repeated sexual and physical abuse, and starvation, at Rubane House.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402192654/http://www.u.tv/News/Jean-McConvilles-child-abused-at-Rubane/1d5cbbcd-4732-4dd2-b5ef-43b90f193f15|url-status=dead|title=ITVX - The Streaming Home For All Of ITV And So Much More!|archivedate=2 April 2015|website=ITVX|access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref> During the inquiry counsel for the De La Salle order said compensation had been paid, and accepted that some members had abused young boys at the home, but that the order believed that some claims "did not take place".<ref name="bbc20141006">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29502429 |title=HIA: De La Salle order 'to protect innocent brothers' from Rubane House|website=BBC News|date=6 October 2014 |access-date= 1 December 2015}}</ref>

Brother Francis Manning FSC said that the order welcomed the inquiry.<ref>{{cite report| work=Inquiry into Historical Institutional Abuse Bill - Official Report (Hansard)|title=De La Salle Order Briefing | publisher=The Northern Ireland Assembly -Committee for the Office of the First Minister and the deputy First Minister| date=19 September 2012 | url=http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/assembly-business/official-report/committee-minutes-of-evidence/session-2012-2013/september-2012/inquiry-into-historical-institutional-abuse-bill-de-la-salle-order-briefing }}</ref> Before the abuse issue had become public a Brother wrote in a letter to an alleged abuser "It is best forgotten and I have told some brothers that no reference is to be made to it among themselves or the boys. The whole affair is best dropped with the prayer that all will learn that lesson that our holy rule is very wise in its prescriptions". The order conducted dozens of internal interviews in this case, but did not report the matter to police.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thecatholicuniverse.com/abuse-cases-best-forgotten-de-la-salle-brother-decreed-4390|newspaper=[[The Universe (Catholic newspaper)|Catholic Universe]]|title=Abuse cases 'best forgotten', De La Salle brother decreed|date=3 October 2014}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29430974 |title=Rubane House: Sex abuse inquiry 'best forgotten' said senior cleric|website=BBC News |date=30 September 2014 |author=<!--not stated--> |access-date= 13 February 2018}}</ref>

On 11 March 2022 statements of apology were made in the [[Northern Ireland Assembly]] by ministers from the five main political parties in Northern Ireland and by representatives of six institutions where abuse had taken place, including Br Francis Manning representing the De La Salle Brothers.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Abuse survivors hear Stormont public apology |last1=McCormack |first1=Jayne |last2=Andrews |first2=Chris |work=BBC News |date=11 March 2022 |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-60676276}}</ref> Several abuse survivors and their family members were critical of the apologies that were made by the institutional representatives.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Abuse survivors apology delivered at Stormont (reported live)| last1 = Connolly | first1 = Gráinne| last2 = Glynn | first2 = Niall| last3 = McCauley | first3 = Ciaran|website=BBC News |date=11 March 2022 |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-northern-ireland-60665887}}</ref>

In the 1960s the deputy headmaster of St Gilbert's [[approved school]] (for young minor offenders) run by Brothers from the De La Salle order in [[Hartlebury]], [[Worcestershire]], England, was convicted of six counts of sexually abusing boys at the school. He was subsequently reinstated as a teacher at another school. In 2014, former pupils of the school described "a 30-year campaign of sadistic and degrading abuse" including rapes and beatings.<ref name=gilbdec14>{{cite web | last=Caulfield | first=Pam | title=Hymns and screams: Abuse at St Gilbert's approved school revealed | publisher=BBC News | date=1 December 2014 | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-30231750}}</ref> A headmaster, a deputy headmaster, and Brothers were reported to have been among those responsible.  Police launched an investigation into allegations of abuse at the school between the 1940s and 1970s after former pupils were interviewed by [[BBC Hereford and Worcester]], and documents intended to be unavailable until 2044 were released under the [[Freedom of Information Act 2000]].  In 2017 and 2018 two former staff members were tried for serious sexual offences, assault causing [[actual bodily harm]], and child cruelty. They were acquitted of all charges other than three charges of child cruelty against one of the defendants, on which the jury was unable to reach a verdict.<ref>{{cite web |title=Former St Gilbert's headteacher cleared of child cruelty |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-45976040 |website=BBC News |date=7 November 2018}}</ref> Other, named, abusers were reported to have died.<ref name=gilbdec14/>

There were other cases with many victims in countries including Scotland (St Ninian's in Gartmore, Stirlingshire; St Joseph's in Tranent; St Mary's in Bishopbriggs),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/executive-fights-to-halt-163-8-5m-claim-from-abused-former-pupils-1-688720|website=The Scotsman|title= Executive fights to halt £8.5m claim from abused former pupils|date= 17 January 2006|access-date=21 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722005039/http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/executive-fights-to-halt-163-8-5m-claim-from-abused-former-pupils-1-688720|archive-date=22 July 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Australia,<ref name=brokenrites>{{Cite web|url=http://brokenrites.org.au/drupal/node/39|title=Two female victims received an official apology but not much compensation|website=brokenrites.org.au|access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/catholic-church-appears-australian-royal-commission-sexual-abuse|title=Catholic church appears before Australian Royal Commission into sexual abuse|website=www.ncronline.org|access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref> and Ireland where "Some 46 alleged abusers are named in these 84 allegations of sex abuse."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=O'Toole |first=Mary |date=June 2024 |title=Report of the Scoping Inquiry into Historical Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools Run by Religious Orders |url=https://www.amri.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Report-of-the-Scoping-Inquiry-Full-Report.pdf |journal=Education Scoping Inquiry |volume=2 |pages=254–256 |via=Association of Leaders of Missionaries & Religious of Ireland}}</ref> Serious and detailed allegations about decades-old abuse have been reported in the US, with several lawsuits being settled in favour of victims.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/25/us/63-million-to-be-paid-to-settle-abuse-case.html |title=$6.3 Million to Be Paid to Settle Abuse Case |newspaper=The New York Times |date= 25 December 2004 |author=NEELA BANERJEE |access-date= 12 July 2018}}<!--Article names "Christian Brothers, but text shows it's La Salle, not Irish Brothers--></ref><ref>[http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/La-Salle-alumnus-alleges-sex-abuse-5773612.php TimesUnion.com: La Salle alumnus alleges sex abuse, 22 September 2014] Troy, New York</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12698380?nclick_check=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060629/https://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12698380?nclick_check=1|archive-date=4 March 2016|title=Former De La Salle teacher faces new sexual abuse allegations in Minnesota|website=Mercury News|author=John Simerman|date=26 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/catholic-school-hid-abuse_n_793300.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307221343/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/catholic-school-hid-abuse_n_793300.html
|archive-date=7 March 2016|title=Top Catholic School Program Concealed Sexual Abuse Knowledge|date=7 December 2010|author=PATRICK CONDON|newspaper=Huffington Post (from AP)}}</ref> After the scandal became widely known, branches of the Order apologised, publicly or to individual victims, for several of these cases.<ref name =gilbdec14/><ref name=brokenrites/><ref name="cica">[http://www.childabusecommission. ie/rpt/01-01.php Government of Ireland:Establishment of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (CICA):The De La Salle Brothers, 1.129–1.131]{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> At St William's residential school in [[Market Weighton]], England, between 1970 and 1991 many boys were abused; 200 now-adult men have said they were abused. Abusers including the principal, James Carragher, were imprisoned in 2004 for past sexual abuse at the home. Five victims started High Court action for compensation in 2016. Four of the cases were dismissed in December 2016 The De La Salle order repeated their apologies for and condemnation of the abuse.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-37750887 |title=Victims take church to court over St William's school sex abuse|website=BBC News|date=31 October 2016|access-date= 31 October 2016 }}</ref> The De La Salle Brothers also operated the controversial [[BoysTown (Beaudesert)|BoysTown]] school between 1961 and 2001, which is known for having the largest case of child abuse at a single institution in Australia's history.<ref name=abc>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-26/boystown-abuse-survivors-justice-legal-action/12336012 |title=Justice Denied |last1=Robertson |first1=Josh |last2=Zwartz |first2=Henry |date=26 July 2020 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]}}</ref> Although only two staff, Brother Francis Brophy and Stephen Anthony Gray, were convicted of [[child sexual abuse]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barnsley |first=Warren |date=2018-09-13 |title=Church's 'wall of silence' saw Boystown Beaudesert boys abused |url=https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/church-s-wall-of-silence-saw-boystown-beaudesert-boys-abused-20180913-p503ni.html |access-date=2024-09-10 |website=Brisbane Times |language=en}}</ref> by 2017, the trustees for the De La Salle Brothers had paid almost $27 million in compensation for 219 credible claims of abuse, representing the highest figure against a single church-run institution in Australia.<ref name="abc" />

Investigations and trials continued into 2022 involving a number of other schools<ref>{{cite news |title=Former RE teacher to face trial over sex assault charges |last=Hunt |first=Jane |newspaper=East Anglian Daily Times |date=19 November 2021 |url= https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/crime/francis-carolan-assault-teenage-boy-8500414}}</ref> and the De La Salle order has only apologised where they have been legally found guilty and not where the allegations haven't been prosecuted. This had brought about a widespread condemnation from former, allegedly abused pupils who lack the evidence to bring about a prosecution.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patmills.wordpress.com/tag/st-josephs-college/|title=St Joseph's College|website=Pat Mills|language=en|access-date=2019-11-05}}</ref>

==Canonized and venerated Lasallians==
===Saints===
* [[Jean-Baptiste de La Salle]] (30 April 1651 – 7 April 1719), founder of the Institute, canonized on 24 May 1900
* [[Salomone Leclercq]] (15 November 1745 – 2 September 1792), Martyr of the French Revolution, canonized on 16 October 2016
* [[Benildus Romançon|Bénilde Romançon]] (14 June 1805 – 13 August 1862), schoolteacher, canonized on 29 October 1967
* [[Miguel Febres Cordero]] (7 November 1854 – 9 February 1910), Ecuadorian Brother, canonized on 21 October 1984
* [[Mutien-Marie Wiaux]] (20 March 1841 – 30 January 1917), Belgian teacher, canonized on 10 December 1989
* [[Martyrs of Turon|Cirilo Bertrán Sanz Tejedor and 7 Companions]] (died 9 October 1934), Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, canonized on 21 November 1999
* [[Jaime Hilario Barbal]] (2 January 1898 – 18 January 1937), Martyr of the Spanish Civil War, canonized on 21 November 1999

===Blesseds===
* [[Rochefort martyrs|Jean (Leon) Mopinot]] (12 December 1724 – 21 May 1794), Martyr of the French Revolution, beatified on 1 October 1995
* [[Rochefort martyrs|Jean Baptiste (Udalric) Guillaume]] (1 February 1755 – 27 August 1794), Martyr of the French Revolution, beatified on 1 October 1995
* [[Rochefort martyrs|Pierre-Sulpice-Christophe (Roger) Faverge]] (25 July 1745 – 12 September 1794), Martyr of the French Revolution, beatified on 1 October 1995
* [[Julian-Nicolas Rèche]] (2 September 1838 – 23 October 1890), educator, beatified on 1 November 1987
* [[Jean-Bernard Rousseau]] (22 March 1797 – 13 April 1867), "Catechist of Slaves", beatified on 2 May 1989
* [[Raphaël Rafiringa]] (3 November 1856 – 19 May 1919), Malagasy Brother, beatified on 7 June 2009
* [[Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War|Edmigio Isidoro Primo Rodriguez and 6 Companions]] (died between August to September 1936), Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, beatified on 10 October 1993
* [[233 Spanish Martyrs|Honorato Andrés Zarraquino Herrero and 4 Companions]] (died between October to November 1936), Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, beatified on 11 March 2001
* [[498 Spanish Martyrs|Ovidio Bertrán Anuncibay Letona and 57 Companions]] (died between July 1936 to March 1937), Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, beatified on 28 October 2007
* [[522 Spanish Martyrs|Agustín María García Tribaldos and 73 Companions]] (died between July 1936 to July 1938), Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, beatified on 13 October 2013
* [[James Miller (religious brother)|James Alfred Miller]] (21 September 1944 – 13 February 1982), missionary to Guatemala and martyr, beatified on 7 December 2019

=== Venerables ===

* Chretien (Alpert) Motsch (26 May 1849 – 6 April 1898). professed religious, declared Venerable on 12 January 1996<ref>{{Cite web |title=1898 |url=http://newsaints.faithweb.com/year/1898.htm |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=newsaints.faithweb.com}}</ref>
* Adrien-Félix-Jean (Exupérien) Mas (7 June 1829 – 31 January 1905), professed religious, declared Venerable on 3 March 1990<ref>{{Cite web |title=1905 |url=http://newsaints.faithweb.com/year/1905.htm |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=newsaints.faithweb.com}}</ref>
* Adolphe (Théophanius-Léo) Châtillon (31 October 1871 – 28 April 1929), Canadian professed religious, declared Venerable on 2 April 2011<ref>{{Cite web |title=1929 |url=http://newsaints.faithweb.com/year/1929.htm |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=newsaints.faithweb.com}}</ref>
* Giovanni (Teodoreto) Garberoglio (9 February 1871 – 13 May 1954), professed religious and founder of the Union of Catechists of Jesus Crucified and Mary Immaculate, declared Venerable on 3 March 1990<ref>{{Cite web |title=1954 |url=http://newsaints.faithweb.com/year/1954.htm |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=newsaints.faithweb.com}}</ref>
* Augustin Arnaud (Victorin Nymphas) Pagès (7 September 1885 – 16 April 1966), professed religious, declared Venerable on 6 April 2019<ref>{{Cite web |title=1966 |url=http://newsaints.faithweb.com/year/1966.htm |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=newsaints.faithweb.com}}</ref>
* Francisco Andrés (Andrés Hibernón) Garmendía Mendizabál (3 September 1880 – 11 March 1969), professed religious, declared Venerable on 3 July 2008<ref>{{Cite web |title=1969 |url=http://newsaints.faithweb.com/year/1969.htm |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=newsaints.faithweb.com}}</ref>
* Wendelin (Gregorio Cesario) Bühl (13 September 1896 – 11 December 1973), professed religious, declared Venerable on 6 April 1995<ref>{{Cite web |title=1973 |url=http://newsaints.faithweb.com/year/1973.htm |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=newsaints.faithweb.com}}</ref>
* Leonardo (Adolfo) Lanzuela Martínez (8 November 1894 – 14 March 1976), professed religious, declared Venerable on 17 December 2015<ref>{{Cite web |title=1976 |url=http://newsaints.faithweb.com/year/1976.htm |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=newsaints.faithweb.com}}</ref>
* Jean Prosper Fromental Cayroche (27 June 1895 – 5 December 1978), professed religious and founder of the Guadalupan Sisters of de La Salle, declared Venerable on 5 July 2013<ref>{{Cite web |title=1978 |url=http://newsaints.faithweb.com/year/1978.htm |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=newsaints.faithweb.com}}</ref>

=== Servants of God ===

* Ghislain-Florent (Térence) Pronier (29 February 1757 – 6 July 1794), Martyr of the French Revolution<ref>{{Cite web |title=French Revolution (09) |url=http://newsaints.faithweb.com/martyrs/MFR09.htm |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=newsaints.faithweb.com}}</ref>
* Antonio (Louis) Camilleri (1 September 1923 – 29 May 2011), Maltese professed religious<ref>{{Cite web |title=2011 |url=http://newsaints.faithweb.com/year/2011.htm |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=newsaints.faithweb.com}}</ref>

== See also ==
* List of [[Lasallian educational institutions]]
* [[Parochial patronage]]

==References==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120222104042/http://www.lasalle.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=56&lang=en Brief history of the Lasallian Institute]
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