Saint Edmund Rice

By jenscot2010

  • Edmund Rice's Birth

  • Edmund Rice's First Job

    In 1779 Edmund was apprenticed to his uncle, Michael Rice in Waterford city. The business involved supplying all the needs of ships that plied their trade across the Atlantic between Europe and the eastern coast of North America.

  • Married

    He was married in 1785 and was married at the age of 23

  • Death of Wife

  • Birth of his daughter

  • First school opened in England

  • Founded the congregation of Christian Brothers

  • Establishment of First School

  • Worked with Nano Nagle

    Edmund Rice worked with Nano Nagle from 1727-1784. Nagle, Distressed by the ignorance of the Irish in both faith and academics, she opened her first school in 1754 with an enrolment of thirty-five girls in a two-room cabin. These began her great work of education and as some historians have noted her important work in saving the Irish culture.

  • Death