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There are at least two religious orders that go by the informal name Christian Brothers. Both are Catholic lay orders dedicated to education. Despite rather strong similarities, the two orders are not related. A religious order is an organization of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with religious devotion. ...
The Congregation of Christian Brothers is a Catholic lay order founded at Waterford, Ireland in 1802 by Blessed Edmund Rice. The Congregation is commonly called the "Irish Christian Brothers" to distinguish it from the other lay order with a similar name. It is dedicated to education, especially to the education of the poor. It also engages in ministry to the disabled. Recently they have undertaken a scheme between Zambia and Ireland to help fight poverty, Project Zambia is in its second year, with very good results so far.
Fortunately the ChristianBrothers were not suppressed and by Edmund's death on 29 August 1844, ChristianBrothers were educating boys in Ireland, England and Australia (Sydney).
Currently 1,700 ChristianBrothers are educators and carers of the poor in 28 countries around the world.
Edmund had given his Brothers as their motto a text from the Book of Job that had meant so much to him in his life: "The Lord has given, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord forever".
The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools is a society of male religious approved by the Church, but not taking Holy orders, and having for its object the personal sanctification of its members and the Christian education of youth, especially of the children of artisans and the poor.
Under the administration of Brother Timothée successful negotiations resulted in the legal recognition of the institute by Louis XV, who granted it letters patent, 24 September, 1724; and in virtue of the Bull of approbation of Benedict XIII, 26 January, 1725, it was admitted among the congregations canonically recognized by the Church.
For the Church of France this was the spring of a new era; for the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools it was a resurrection.
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