As a result, enterprising Catholics, such as Robert Rice, were enabled to rent farmland from tolerant Protestant landlords at reasonable rates. Kilkenny fared better than many places because of the tolerance of John Butler, the Protestant Duke of Ormonde who resided in Kilkenny Castle. The Penal Laws against Catholics were still in force in Ireland. He was the fourth of seven brothers, and had two stepsisters, Joan and Jane Murphy, from his mother’s first marriage. He was beatified in 1996.ĭonal Blake, the author of this article, is the postulator of his cause for canonisation.Įdmund Rice, founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers, was born to Robert and Margaret Rice, prosperous Catholic tenant farmers, at Westcourt, Callan, Co. Edmund Rice came from from Callan, Co Kilkenny was a businessman, husband, widower, father of a handicapped child, advocate of the poor and the founder of two religious congregations devoted to education the Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers. He is a model of patient and cheerful acceptance of the sufferings God sends, a true lay apostle and a deeply committed religious. To advance the work he gathered other like-minded men who took religious vows together to work for the Catholic education of boys. (1762-1844) After his young wife's early death, he sold his possessions and dedicated his life to the education of the poor.
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