The Life of Edmund Rice
Founder of the Irish Christian Brothers
Our school is called after Blessed Edmund Ignatius
Rice. The Irish Christian Brothers ran the school until there departure from the town in
1993.Edmund Rice founded the Irish Christian Brothers in Waterford city. From here they
spread throughout the world and to-day members of the community can now be found on
all the five continents. Edmund was forty when he sold all he had and started his first
school in a stable in New Street , Waterford. His wife had died thirteen years before and
in the meantime had become a very wealthy man. One does not change ones whole life over a
short period of time.It took Edmund many years to make his final decision to start a
teaching community.He is a role model form us all to-day as he put the welfare of others
before himself. His remains are in a casket in Mount Sion, Waterford
Here is the story of this saintly man.