| LC control no. | nr 95006763 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Brothers of Christian Instruction of St. Gabriel |
| Variant(s) | Frères de Saint-Gabriel Frères montfortains de Saint-Gabriel Brothers of St. Gabriel Brothers of Christian Instruction of Saint Gabriel Institutum Fratrum Instructionis Christianae a Sancto Gabriele |
| Beginning date | 1715 |
| Associated country | France |
| Located | Nantes (France) |
| Field of activity | Church and education |
| Found in | L'ancien juvénat Saint-Gabriel de Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, 1990: leaf 8 (Frères de Saint-Gabriel) New Catholic encycl., 1967: v. 2, p. 822 (Brothers of Christian Instruction of St. Gabriel, or Brothers of St. Gabriel (Institutum Fratrum Instructionis Christianae a Sancto Gabriel) religious congregation estab. in France and devoted to education; spread to Canada 1888 and then elsewhere) Frères de Saint-Gabriel website, viewed Feb. 14, 2018: Historique (les Frères montfortains de Saint-Gabriel, also called more simply Frères de Saint-Gabriel; originally attached to saint Louis-Marie de Montfort (1673-1716), as the Compagnie de Marie or Communautée du Saint-Esprit; the first brothers were the four who spoke their vows in June 1715; the order grew under the leadership of père Gabriel Deshayes (1767-1841), who entered the Compagnie de Marie at age 53; the congregation became independent from Compagnie de Marie in 1842) La congrégation des Frères de Saint-Gabriel (present in over 30 countries today; they mostly teach children and youth; have continued a focus begun under Gabriel Deshayes on those handicapped by blindness and deafness) address (Nantes) |
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