St Francis de Sales High School - Accolade Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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X ST. ith, Father Buckley Father Fuqua Father Ward VERY REV. WILLIAM D. BUCKLEY, O.S.F.S., Provincial of the Ameri- can Province of the Oblates VERY REV. JOHN J. FUQUA, O.S.F.S., Superior of the Oblate Commu- nity at Brisson House VERY REV. WILLIAM J. WARD, O.S.F.S., Principal of St. Francis de FRANCIS DE SALE jeg. Z' , 'fjf Brisson House, resi- ,. dence of the Oblate Community N. . pf 7

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VENERABLE LOUIS BRISSON, O.S.F.S. 1817-1908 FOUNDER OF THE OBLATES ST. FRANCIS DE SALES, 1567-1622 PATRON OF THE OBLATES THE OBLATES OF

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Father Baraniewicz Father Connolly Rev. Mr. Davitt Spirit of the Oblates The Northeast Catholic High School in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, has a faculty of seventy-five Oblates with an enroll- ment of 3000 boys. The faculty of St. Francis de Sales High School is composed of the Oblate Fathers and lay teachers. The Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, a congregation of priest and brothers, was founded in France in 1872 by the Very Rev. Louis A., Bris- son, a priest of the diocese of Troyes. Father? Bris- son had been for more than thirty years the chap- lain of the Monastery of the Visitation at Troyes. During those years, he had become inflamed with the teaching of the founder of the Order of the Visitation, St. Francis de Sales, who had ex- plained so clearly the need for the practice of Christian virtue, and even sanctity, in the every- day lives of ordinary people. In the spirit of this saint for modern times, Father Brisson devoted himself especially to the young men and women of Troyes. Troyes was a typical mill town 'of the nineteenth century, caught in the confusion of the Industrial Revolu- tion, hardly a breeding place for virtue, and par- ticularly unmindful of its youth. Under Father Brisson's direction, clubs for boys and girls, rec- reation centers, study groups, settlement houses and residences for working girls were established. These activities, centering on the living of a more devout Christian life, achieved remarkable success, and brought much renown to the name and work of Father Louis Brisson.