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4 unusual facts about Piarists


Bílá Voda

Jakob Ernst von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, the later Bishop of Olomouc, established a Piarist college on his inherited Bílá Voda estates in 1723, a response to the 1707 Convention of Altranstädt granting religious freedom to the Silesian Protestants.

Hebdów

The historic complex (the abbey together with a church) currently belongs to the Piarists.

Since 1949, the complex has been administered by the Piarists.

Josep Maria Espinàs

He studied at Piarists schools until 1945, when he entered the School of Law of the Universitat de Barcelona, earning his degree in 1949.


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Stanislaus Papczyński

Blessed Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary Papczyński (born John Papka, May 18, 1631 in Podegrodzie, Poland; died September 17, 1701 in Góra Kalwaria, Poland), a priest of the Roman Catholic church, a member of the Piarist Order, the founder of the Congregation of Marian Fathers; beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 2007.


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