We are a community of Fathers and Brothers dedicated to Christ following our motto of Piety and Learning.

St. Joseph Calasanz founded in Rome his Pious Schools for poor children and youth in 1597. It was the first public, popular and free school in Europe; wrote the famous German historian Ludwing Von Pastor in his History of the Popes.

We are called Fathers of the Pious Schools. From Pious originates Piarist, and from Schools and Pious, Escolapios, in Spanish. Our identity is Sch.P. (Scholarum Piarum, in Latin or Pious Schools in English). For the Piarist Fathers and Brothers, devotion to the Mother of God is one of the characteristics of their own charism. Calasanz composed the beautiful prayer of the Crown of the Twelve Stars in her honor.

For Calasanz, The child is the Father of the Man, in his Christian life: "If Children from their earliest years are instructed diligently in piety and learning it must undoubtedly be expected that their whole life will be a happy one."

Giving the greatest importance to education, Calasanz wrote: The teaching profession is truly a most deserving ministry, most noble, most meritorious, beneficial, most useful, most needed, most natural, reasonable and gratifying, a most attractive and glorious one! >>> Brief History of the Order