Collège des Frères (Bab al-Louq)


Collège-des-Frères , , or simply Frères Bab el-Louk is a French school in Bab al-Louq, a neighborhood in downtown Cairo, and is one of six Lasallian schools in Egypt of which four are located in Cairo and two in Alexandria.

History

On June 3, 1888, two brothers, Les Frères, began their mission at St. Joseph school near St. Joseph church at Banque Misr St. in Downtown Cairo. The first class had two students.

St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle

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St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle was born in Rheims, France on April 30, 1651. He was 29 years old when he realized that the educational system of his day was inadequate to meet the needs of the poor children of seventeenth century France. To provide a Christian and human education, De La Salle founded a religious community of men, the Brothers of the Christian Schools, dedicated to the instruction of youth, especially the poor. De La Salle died on Good Friday, April 7, 1719. He was canonized a saint of the Catholic Church in 1900 and declared "Universal Patron of All Teachers" by Pope Pius XII in 1950. The feast of St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle is celebrated on the 15th of May by the worldwide Lasallian movement.