{"id":4530,"date":"2016-05-11T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scolopi.org\/en\/calasanz\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T07:06:40","slug":"calasanz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scolopi.org\/en\/calasanz\/","title":{"rendered":"Calasanz"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_divider color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; show_divider=&#8221;off&#8221; height=&#8221;8&#8243; divider_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; divider_position=&#8221;top&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; disabled_on=&#8221;on|on|off&#8221;]\n[\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243;][et_pb_gallery fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; show_title_and_caption=&#8221;on&#8221; show_pagination=&#8221;on&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; auto=&#8221;on&#8221; hover_overlay_color=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0.9)&#8221; caption_all_caps=&#8221;off&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; gallery_ids=&#8221;3189&#8243;]\n[\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243;][et_pb_text background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221;]\n<h1>Saint Joseph Calasanz<\/h1>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=&#8221;#727272&#8243; show_divider=&#8221;on&#8221; divider_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; divider_position=&#8221;top&#8221; hide_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; height=&#8221;2&#8243; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; disabled_on=&#8221;on|on|off&#8221;]\n[\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221;]\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p>Saint Joseph Calasanz, the founder of the first Christian popular school in Europe and the Piarist Fathers, was born in 1557 in Peralta de la Sal (Aragon, Spain). God prepared in the person of Calasanz a mediator to enrich the Church with a new charismatic gift. He granted him natural gifts and the atmosphere of a family that gave him a long and excellent Christian and cultural training.<\/p>\n<p>God called him to the priesthood, Ministry that he exerted on various curial and pastoral missions. Nine years after being ordained a priest, he left for Rome, where walking through the poorest neighborhood of the city he was moved against the misery in which children and youth of the place lived. His vocation emerged in this framework. He heard the voice of the Lord, who told him: \u201cJoseph, give yourself to the poor. Teach these children and care about them\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Calasanz, in the spring of 1597, moved by compassion toward the poor and abandoned children, visited the Roman neighborhood of Trastevere and in the parish of Santa Dorotea he discovered a small parochial school, which made hatching in his heart the decisive way of his life. Thus he founded the \u201cfirst popular and free school in Europe\u201d. His educational goal was summarized in the slogan: \u201cPiety and Letters\u201d, which today we can translate as \u201cfaith and culture\u201d. He called his work the \u201cPious Schools\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Center of his educational ideas were the respect for the personality of each child and seeing in them the image of Christ. Through his Pious Schools, he tried to serve the intellectual, physical and spiritual needs of young people at his care. Calasanz was a friend of Galileo, the prominent scientist, and attached great importance to science and mathematics, as well as humanities, in the education of youth.<\/p>\n<p>To continue his educational mission he founded the Order of the Pious Schools, a Religious Order whose members, known as Piarists, profess four solemn religious vows: poverty, chastity, obedience, and the dedication to the education of the youth.<\/p>\n<p>The dream of Saint Joseph Calasanz of educating all the children, his schools for the poor, his support for Galileo\u2019s science, and his life of holiness in service to children and youth, won him the opposition by many of the leading classes of society and also of much of the Church hierarchy. But Calasanz showed exemplary patience against the problems and adversities of life.<\/p>\n<p>This charism was received by Calasanz, first of all, as the acceptance of a new educational and evangelizing mission which was attended by his first companions; then it resulted in a particular relationship sharing with them, in addition to the ministry, housing, prayer and goods in a more stable community; and finally it was completed when Calasanz and a small group of his followers embraced a form of religious life, which strengthened and gave unit to what they had realized and lived until then. The Church approved it as a Congregation in 1617 and as an Order with a specific vow of dedication to the education of the youth, in 1622, with the name of Regular Poor Clerics of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools.<\/p>\n<p>In subsequent years up to his death, Joseph Calasanz promoted the expansion of the charism, carefully nursed the incarnation of the founding gift and defended it against experiences and interpretations which did not respond to the intuition of the origins.<\/p>\n<p>Founder of the first Religious Order specifically dedicated to Christian education through the school, always insisted on three features charismatic thereof, present in germ from the beginning, explicitly affirmed in the Constitutions of 1621 and profiled in the years of expansion and conflict: giving priority to education from infancy, to the education of the poor and education in piety.<\/p>\n<p>He died in Rome the 25<sup>th<\/sup> of August 1648, convinced that his Order and his dream would not die. And so it was, as it was declared a Saint in 1767, and Pope Pius XII declared him in 1948 \u201cHeavenly Patron of all Christian popular schools\u201d. Pope John Paul II said that Saint Joseph Calasanz took as a model Christ and tried to convey to young people, as well as profane science, the wisdom of the Gospel teaching them to grasp God\u2019s loving action.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image animation_style=&#8221;fade&#8221; animation_duration=&#8221;500ms&#8221; animation_intensity_slide=&#8221;10%&#8221; animation_direction=&#8221;center&#8221; show_bottom_space=&#8221;on&#8221;]\n[\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Joseph Calasanz Saint Joseph Calasanz, the founder of the first Christian popular school in Europe and the Piarist Fathers, was born in 1557 in Peralta de la Sal (Aragon, Spain). God prepared in the person of Calasanz a mediator to enrich the Church with a new charismatic gift. He granted him natural gifts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p>San Jos\u00e9 de Calasanz, el fundador de la primera escuela popular cristiana de Europa y de los Padres Escolapios, naci\u00f3 en 1557, en Peralta de la Sal (Arag\u00f3n, Espa\u00f1a). Dios prepar\u00f3 en la persona de Calasanz a un mediador para enriquecer a su Iglesia con un nuevo don carism\u00e1tico. Le concedi\u00f3 dones naturales y el ambiente de una familia que le facilit\u00f3 una excelente y larga formaci\u00f3n cristiana y cultural.<\/p><p>Dios le llam\u00f3 al sacerdocio, cuyo ministerio ejerci\u00f3 en diversas misiones curiales y pastorales. Nueve a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s de ser ordenado sacerdote, parti\u00f3 hacia Roma, donde caminando por el barrio m\u00e1s pobre de la ciudad se conmovi\u00f3 frente a la miseria en la que viv\u00edan los j\u00f3venes y ni\u00f1os del lugar. En este marco surge su vocaci\u00f3n. Escuch\u00f3 la voz del Se\u00f1or, que le dijo: \"Jos\u00e9, entr\u00e9gate a los pobres. Ense\u00f1a a estos ni\u00f1os y cuida de ellos\u201d.<\/p><p>Jos\u00e9 de Calasanz, en la primavera de 1597, movido por la compasi\u00f3n hacia los ni\u00f1os pobres y abandonados visit\u00f3 la vecindad romana del Trastevere y en la parroquia de Santa Dorotea descubri\u00f3 una peque\u00f1a escuela parroquial, que hizo eclosionar en su coraz\u00f3n el camino decisivo de su vida. Funda as\u00ed la \"primera escuela popular y gratuita de Europa\". Su meta educativa qued\u00f3 resumida en el lema: \u201cPiedad y Letras\", que hoy podemos traducir como \"fe y cultura\". Llam\u00f3 a su obra las \u201cEscuelas P\u00edas\".<\/p><p>El centro de sus ideas educativas era el respeto por la personalidad de cada ni\u00f1o y el ver en ellos la imagen de Cristo. Por medio de sus Escuelas P\u00edas, trat\u00f3 de servir las necesidades intelectuales, f\u00edsicas y espirituales de los j\u00f3venes bajo su cuidado. Calasanz fue amigo de Galileo, el destacado cient\u00edfico, y dio gran importancia a las ciencias y a las matem\u00e1ticas, as\u00ed como a las humanidades, en la educaci\u00f3n de la juventud.<\/p><p>Para continuar su labor educativ<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3184 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/scolopi.org.mialias.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/iconografia_calasanziana-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"iconografia_calasanziana\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" \/>a fund\u00f3 la Orden de las Escuelas P\u00edas, una orden religiosa cuyos miembros, conocidos como los Escolapios, profesamos cuatro votos religiosos solemnes: pobreza, castidad, obediencia, y el de la dedicaci\u00f3n a la educaci\u00f3n de la juventud.<\/p><p>El sue\u00f1o de San Jos\u00e9 de Calasanz de educar a todos los ni\u00f1os, sus escuelas para los pobres, su apoyo a la ciencia de Galileo, y su vida de santidad en servicio a los ni\u00f1os y j\u00f3venes, le ganaron la oposici\u00f3n de muchos de las clases dirigentes de la sociedad y tambi\u00e9n de buena parte de la jerarqu\u00eda eclesi\u00e1stica. Pero Calasanz mostr\u00f3 una paciencia ejemplar frente a los problemas y adversidades de la vida.<\/p><p>Este carisma fue recibido por Calasanz, ante todo, como la aceptaci\u00f3n de una nueva misi\u00f3n evangelizadora y educativa de la que participaron sus primeros compa\u00f1eros; dio lugar despu\u00e9s a una relaci\u00f3n particular con ellos al compartir, adem\u00e1s del ministerio, vivienda, oraci\u00f3n y bienes en una comunidad m\u00e1s estable; y finalmente se expres\u00f3 cuando Calasanz y un peque\u00f1o grupo de sus seguidores abrazaron una forma de vida religiosa, que consolid\u00f3 y dio unidad a lo realizado y vivido hasta entonces. La Iglesia la aprob\u00f3 como Congregaci\u00f3n en 1617 y como Orden con un voto espec\u00edfico de dedicaci\u00f3n a la educaci\u00f3n de la juventud, en 1622, con el nombre de Cl\u00e9rigos Regulares Pobres de la Madre de Dios de las Escuelas P\u00edas.<\/p><p>En los a\u00f1os sucesivos hasta su muerte, Jos\u00e9 de Calasanz promovi\u00f3 la expansi\u00f3n del carisma, cuid\u00f3 atentamente la encarnaci\u00f3n del don fundacional y lo defendi\u00f3 frente a experiencias e interpretaciones que no respond\u00edan a la intuici\u00f3n de los or\u00edgenes.<\/p><p>Fundador de la primera Orden religiosa dedicada espec\u00edficamente a la educaci\u00f3n cristiana popular a trav\u00e9s de la escuela, insisti\u00f3 siempre en tres rasgos carism\u00e1ticos de la misma, presentes germinalmente desde el principio, afirmados expl\u00edcitamente en las Constituciones de 1621 y perfilados en los a\u00f1os de expansi\u00f3n y de conflicto: dar prioridad a la educaci\u00f3n desde la infancia, a la educaci\u00f3n de los pobres y a la educaci\u00f3n en la piedad.<\/p><p>Muri\u00f3 en Roma el 25 de agosto de 1648, convencido de que su orden y su sue\u00f1o no morir\u00edan. Y as\u00ed fue, pues fue declarado santo en 1767, y el Papa P\u00edo XII le declar\u00f3 en 1948 \"celestial patrono de todas las escuelas populares cristianas\". El Papa Juan Pablo II afirm\u00f3 que San Jos\u00e9 de Calasanz tom\u00f3 por modelo a Cristo e intent\u00f3 transmitir a los j\u00f3venes, adem\u00e1s de la ciencia profana, la sabidur\u00eda del Evangelio ense\u00f1\u00e1ndoles a captar la acci\u00f3n amorosa de Dios.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4530","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Calasanz - Order of the Pious Schools<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scolopi.org\/calasanz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Calasanz - Order of the Pious Schools\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Saint Joseph Calasanz Saint Joseph Calasanz, the founder of the first Christian popular school in Europe and the Piarist Fathers, was born in 1557 in Peralta de la Sal (Aragon, Spain). 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