Kalasantiner#
Kalasantiner, (COp, Congregatio pro Operariis Christianis a S. Josepho Calasantio, congregation of the Christian Workers of St. Joseph Calasanz), founded in 1889 by the workers´ priest Anton M. Schwartz in Vienna; devoted to the religious education of workers and social care, named after the founder of the Piarist order, J. Calasanz; in 1939 officially recognised as a religious order by Rome. The mother house is in Vienna´s 15th district, other religious establishments of the Calasantines are in Vienna´s 14th district, in Wolfsgraben, in Blumau near Felixdorf, in Schwarzau on the Steinfelde (Lower Austria) and in Deutsch-Goritz (Styria).
Literature#
Personalstand der maennlichen Ordensgemeinschaften Oesterr., 1992.