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<p> (Latin, [[Fratres]] Ignorantice; French, Freres Ignorantines), also known as the [[Congregation]] of [[Christians]] Instruction and [[Christian]] Schools, is the name of a Jesuitical foundation for the gratuitous instruction of poor children in sacred as well as secular learning, which was founded in [[France]] in the early part of the 18th century (1724) by the abbé de la Salle. ‘ As the object is to confine the instruction to such branches as do not conflict with, but even favor, the religious views of the [[Roman]] Catholics, virtually preparing the young, by the exclusion of all books by Protestants, to remain true to the church of their fathers, they have gradually been introduced into every [[Catholic]] country of Europe. In France this society shared at the [[Revolution]] the fate of all the other religious bodies; but, under the name of [[Brothers]] of the Christian Schools, they were recalled, and re-established under Napoleon in 1806. They are now exceedingly numerous in France, Italy, and in some parts of [[Bohemia]] and Germany. [[Many]] branches exist also in [[England]] and Ireland. In the latter country they have large educational establishments, with a series of schoolbooks specially designed for Roman Catholics. The [[Ignorantines]] wear a dress very similar to that of the Jesuits. — Chambers, Cyclop. 5, 517; Herzog, Real-Encyklop. 6, 632. </p>