The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools is a Roman Catholic religious teaching order, founded by John Baptiste De La Salle, born in 1651 in Reims, France. De La Salle had the idea of setting up schools where the children of the working class and the poor would learn reading, writing and arithmetic, and would also receive Christian instruction and other training appropriate for forming good Christians. To do this he brought together a group of men to live in commmunity and conduct the Christian Schools. The founding of the order is said to be 1680.
The Institute of the Brothers of the ChristianSchools, also known as the ChristianBrothers, the Lasallian Brothers, the French ChristianBrothers, or the De La Salle Brothers, is a Roman Catholic religious teaching order, founded by Jean-Baptiste de la Salle.
As of 2005, the Superior General is Brother Álvaro Rodríguez Echeverría, FSC, of Costa Rica.
ChristianBrothers College was founded November 19, 1871, by members of the Institute of the Brothers of the ChristianSchools, a Roman Catholic religious teaching congregation.
ChristianBrothers University is the largest private university in West Tennessee with a student population around 2000 (counting day-students, evening-students, and graduate schools).
ChristianBrothers University is one of the seven Lasallian colleges and universities in the United States.
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