André Coindre


Father André Coindre was born on 26 February 1787 in Lyon, France and died on 30 May 1826 in Blois, France. Coindre died by falling out a window. Following André' s death, his brother, Francois Coindre, ran the organization that André originally founded Called the Brothers Of The Sacred Heart.
Father André Coindre was founder of the Fratres a Sacratissimo Corde Iesu, a Roman Catholic religious order primarily devoted to high school and elementary school education; the brotherhood is also a missionary society.
The Brothers of the Sacred Heart named a boarding school Coindre Hall in honor of the order's founder. The school operated in Huntington, New York, from 1939 to 1971.
he was the founder of the Brothers of The Sacred Heart, who re-founded St Columba's College in St Albans.