!!!Piaristen

Piarists (Scholarum Piarum, teaching order), Catholic men's order 
devoted to the instruction and education of young people. Their 
founder, Joseph von Calasanz ( Kalasantiner), opened the first free 
elementary school in Europe in a Roman presbytery in 1597. The 
Piarists, sanctioned by the Pope in 1617, played a leading role in 
secondary school teaching in the 18%%sup th/%  century, they ran 24 
Gymnasium secondary schools in Austria and cultivated a rich 
repertoire of religious dramas of high literary value; present 
establishments in Vienna (Provincialate), Horn and Krems.


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