Edmund Ignatius Rice, the Irish missionary after which both of these schools are named.
The Christian Brothers were founded in Ireland in 1802 by Brother Edmund Rice to educate the sons of poor and oppressed Catholic families.
Edmund Ignatius Rice (1762–1844), Catholic lay brother and founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers
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He authored several important academic works, including biographies of Edmund Ignatius Rice, Mahatma Gandhi, Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley and John Boyle O'Reilly, many of which were written in Irish.
In 1762 Edmund Ignatius Rice was born into an affluent farming family in Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland.