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Piarist

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Pi´a`rist
n.1.(R. C. Ch.) One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century.
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The majority of the pieces I copied were by members of the Piarist Order.
It has to entertain me and the others by Dobrovska, Wanda / Czech Music
The devious and complicated workings of the Vatican, and the internal corruptions of the Catholic Church enabled the sexual abuse of children (practiced by some of the leading priests) which lead to the disgrace and abolition of the Piarist Order in 1646 by Pope Innocent X.
Fallen Order by Stuart, Sharon / Reviewer's Bookwatch
Father Joseph Calasanz, a canonized saint and founder of the Piarist Order, in a 1631 letter to the headmaster of one of the Piarist schools about a priest accused of sexually abusing students (Documented in Fallen Order by Karen Liebreich, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004)
Nothing new under the sun by Calasanz, Joseph / U.S. Catholic
 
 
 
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