Images Exhibition School of the Nativity of Christ. 6 al 15 June 2014

THE INSTITUTION OF THE SCHOOL OF CHRIST AND SEVILLE

This institution, composed of mixed congregations of clergy and laity, originally only males, with a clausus numbers of seventy-two ( up to a third of clergy and up to two of laity), which became an authentic ecclesial movement, It must be inscribed in the spiritual current started by Saint Philip Neri in Rome with the Oratories for laity. To this decisive spirit , inserted in the atmosphere of Catholic reform at the beginning of the Modern Age, a typically Spanish and baroque color joins, whose modeling was notably influenced by Blessed Juan de Palaox y Mendoza, Bishop of Osuna, considered Co-founder of the Institute. It is an institute of Christian perfection in the secular life of intimate and collected spirituality, what do you expect, through prayer and ascensis, primarily through a weekly community exercise, promote the Christian perfection of its members. It must be found in what today the current Code of Canon Law (1983) call private associations of the faithful (canons 321 ss).

SAINT FELIPE NERI WAS THE FATHER OF THE SCHOOLS OF CHRIST

The first ESCUELA DE CRSTO was founded in Spain in Madrid in 1653 by the Italian priest Juan Bautista Feruzo, oratorian, having experienced its operation since 1646. The definitive Constitutions were approved in 1656 by the Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo Baltasar Moscoso y Sandoval. But the Church's support for this institution was not to end here., which was to be spread throughout all the territories under Spanish jurisdiction. Pope Alexander VII Chigi confirmed the institute and ratified its Constitutions in 1665. Numerous Religious Orders have been granted, Likewise, throughout history the spiritual twinning of the different Schools of Christ. King Ferdinand VII in 1826 took under its protection the Institute of the Schools of Christ and granted it the title of Royal.

Its spiritual values ​​and the support it received from civil and religious authorities led to its expansion throughout Spain and its colonies.. In sevilla, where it appears very soon, there were three, by having limited the number of Brothers. The first was founded in 1662, the Christ School of the Holy Spirit. The second, in 1793, It was the School of Christ of the Nativity, only surviving in the compass of the current Parish of Santa Cruz. Third, founded in 1798, It was the School of Christ of the Coegio de San Hermenegildo Mártir. The two disappeared stopped working in the second half of the 19th century.

The upheavals of the 19th century generally left the institution in a pitiful decline. In this state of affairs the School of Christ of the Nativity of Seville had an important role, who led its reorganization throughout Spain as of November 5, 1925, for which it receives the title of Coput restaurationis Instituti Nostri.

In December 1953, in which the First General Congregation of Holy Schools of Christ was held in Madrid, on the occasion of the third centenary of the founding of the Escuela Madre, Thirty-one of the three hundred and eighty-five that are known throughout Spain were manifested as existing. To these must be added that of San Mguel de Allende, in the State of Guanajuato, Mexico.

But this was to be truncated with the shaking produced in all practices of religious life after the Second Vatican Council and the rapid and, sometimes, traumatic social changes that have shaken our country in the last third of our century. It is difficult to quantify the number of those existing today and the state of vitality in which they are. We know of the existence of few usa: the primitive of Madrid, Castellón, Two Neighborhoods (Toledo), The arches (Navarra), Orduña (Biscay), Tijoa (Almería)… And of the restoration in his internal life of that of a Natividad de Sevilla in December 1997, after a few years of decline.

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