De La Mennais Brothers' Founder's Day - Nov. 26th 2019 - from Bulletin 25th Nov.
Founder’s Day - Father Jean-Marie De La Mennais (1780-1860) Nov. 26th is the day when we, the Brothers, and the members of our worldwide network of Brothers’ communities, schools, youth movements, educational projects and friends commemorate the life of Jean-Marie De La Mennais, a dynamic, charismatic Breton priest who helped reignite the Catholic faith in post-Revolution France, especially Brittany. The actual date of his death was Dec. 26th 1780, but traditionally we commemorate him a month earlier due to the proximity to Christmas. This year, being our Bicentenary year as a religious congregation, the children, laypeople and Brothers who make up our worldwide network will be involved in a variety of different projects now and over the coming months. Our Yr. 7s are making a chain of 200 paper hands which I will laminate and use to form a large “200” with which I will decorate the Main Hall Chapel ’s partition wall. We will have a Bicentenary Mass here in school in the New