Saint Joseph Lycée of Reims
Information
TypeJesuit, Catholic
Established1874; 150 years ago (1874)
GradesKG through baccalaureate
GenderCoeducational
Enrollment1,250
WebsiteStJoeReims

Saint Joseph Lycée of Reims, founded in 1874 by the Jesuit fathers, is a coeducational Catholic, state-supported school, currently located between Capuchin, Venice, 'Équerre, and Moulins streets in Reims. There are 1,250 students from kindergarten through baccalaureate, and houses 340 boarding students. It strives to implement Ignatian Pedagogy in three stages:

History

The Collège du Faubourg Ceres (1874 - 1907)

The Foundation (1874 - 1875)

The Jesuit fathers returned to Reims in April 1866, at the request of the Abelé de Muller family, thanks to the intervention of Cardinal Gousset who obtained government authorization and the financial assistance of Baron de Sachs, to provide religious services for German-speaking families, especially Alsatians or Luxembourgers, who had come in large numbers to Reims in the preceding years. A group of fathers settled in a modest house in the Ruinart square of Brimont, the current place, on 30 August 1944. In 1867, thanks to a gift of one hundred thousand francs from the Baroness de Sachs, they built a chapel, which was later used by the pupils of the College. After the disasters of the war of 1870, and in anticipation of the forthcoming closure of the Collège Saint-Clement of Metz, advances were made to the fathers of the Faubourg Cérès on 10 March 1871 for the construction of a College. Monsignor Landriot proposed to them to take back the diocesan college of Rethel. Reims, however, by its position and importance, was the most suitable city for a foundation, and the fathers sought suitable ground. The opportunity presented itself in the sale of the farm Grulet, 86 Faubourg Ceres, whose land extends as far as the residence of the Ruinart place of Brimont. The farm was bought on 27 June 1872, as well as a few other buildings at number 80, 82, and 84 of the Férbourg Ceres and a neighboring garden, the "Jardin Petit". Father Grandidier, provincial, came to Reims on 8 August 1874, after the death of Bishop Landriot, to make the final decisions, and the École Libre Saint-Joseph opened its doors for the boarders on Wednesday, 28 October 1874, and the following day for the day students. Three classes were opened, fifth, sixth, and a preparatory course of seventh-eighth. In this first year 37 students were enrolled.[2] Fr. Henri Mertian was rector and Fr. Hoffmann prefect. The farmer's home accommodated a parlor, the offices of rector and prefect, housing, infirmary, chapel, and classes were in the outbuildings, gatehouse and refectory in sheepfolds, dormitories and studies in the first barn, and gym in the second barn.

Developmental Period (1875 - 1880)

The College rapidly grew: in the second school year the number of pupils was 100 in five classes, and 160 pupils in six classes the following year. In 1875, Fr. Mertian became minister and Fr. Cornaille rector. Central building, currently Jean-Jaurès high school, opened in October 1877. Mertian conceived the general plan of the College and began construction in 1875 of the central, parallel building to the Rue David. This building, built by Monsieur Collignon, an architect in Reims, opened at the beginning of October 1877 and was solemnly blessed, along with the statue of Saint Joseph which adorned its façade, on 19 March 1878 by Monsignor Langénieux. Fr. Cornaille was over the Collège from 1875 to 1880 and Fr. Lacouture from 1875 to 1886. The latter was at the same time prefect of discipline and studies, professor of mathematics, and general director. Apart from three or four lay professors, all the staff were Jesuits The regulations were strict and austere: boarders rose at 5 or 5.30, had Wednesday afternoons free, and after Sunday Mass had catechism class from 10 to 11 and then compulsory attendance at vespers at 1:30, even for the outsiders. Boarders were free each first Wednesday of the month from 11 am to 8 pm. There were very few holidays: New Year's Day, Easter (Monday to Wednesday), vacation from the first days of August to the last days of September. To alleviate the rigidity of the regulations, throughout the year there were organized diversions, ceremonies, and recreation: large religious festivals with their solemn celebrations and processions; academic sessions, academies, Sabbaths, consultations; Saint Nicolas, the Holy Innocents, Saint Cecilia, the choir boys, academic festivals, sports, feasts, swimming at Three Rivers, excursions, and other diversions.

First Tests (1880 - 1889)

On 9 March 1880 a decree of Jules Ferry prohibited unauthorized congregations from teaching, particularly naming the Jesuits, and prescribed the expulsion of religious from their colleges. Father Rollin and Archbishop Langenieux declared that everything would be done to save the school and to maintain the teaching methods and principles of the Society of Jesus. The direction of the College was entrusted to Abbot Champenois, a former professor of philosophy at the Collège de Rethel, and priests and young abbots replaced the Jesuit fathers. On 21 October 1880, the pupils of each of the four divisions signed the following supplication: "We, the undersigned, pupils of the ... Division of the College of Saint Joseph, beseech the Sacred Heart to protect our dear college in the midst of the present crisis. If our prayer is answered, we promise, in June 1881, to place in our study a painting in Jesus' honor with a commemorative inscription." The promise was fulfilled and the painting of the First Division (high school classes) bears the following inscription: "To fulfill a vow of the high school, 26 Jun 1881." At the beginning of 1881, Fr. Didier-Laurent, of the diocese of Saint-Dié, replaced the Canon Champenois as Superior of the College and held this office until 1889. In 1883, Fr. Lacouture organized the first annual alumni meeting preceded by a three-day retreat. These meetings were taken over in 1892 by the Alumni Association.[3] In 1886, Fr. Poisat succeeded Lacouture as prefect. Teaching by the ecclesiastics and lay faculty followed the spirit, program, and methods of Jesuits. Christian formation at the College was supplemented by catechism classes, sermons, liturgical feasts. Devotion to the Holy Angels, to St. Aloysius Gonzaga, and especially to the Blessed Virgin were fostered. The College continued to progress. Rules were somewhat loosened: the beginning of the school year was moved back, in 1888, to the 3rd of October; the students who had obtained their first testimony could have off every Wednesday; the Christmas holidays began on the 28th of December in the evening until the 3rd of January; but the Easter holiday leave still began only on Easter Monday. With calm restored, thought was given to construction of new buildings. Father Mertian, who had presided over the construction of the central building, was in charge of it, and at the beginning of 1889 the grand building built on the Faubourg Cérès (now avenue Jean-Jaures) was inaugurated to replace the hovels of the first years. The parlors, refectory, classrooms, chapel, and professors rooms were installed there.

Return of the Fathers - Period of prosperity (1889-1901)

Enrollment now exceeded 300. Fr. Rousselin again became Rector in 1889. A preparatory course at Saint-Cyr was created in 1890 and lasted until 1897. The necessity of a country house was felt for the boarders. In 1880, before their expulsion that year, the fathers had bought a meadow in Cormontreuil, which was hardly used. In the following years, the College rented an old farm belonging to the Jesuit fathers at Cormontreuil during the first College of the seventeenth-eighteenth century. After the return of the fathers, in 1889, land was bought between the rue de Louvois and the present Ledru-Rollin street, which the pupils called "the Sahara", and on which Fr. Mertian had a building that no longer exists.[4] The first General Assembly of the Alumni Association was held on 28 May 1893. Edouard Werle was its first president, but had to retire the following year for health reasons. Dr. René Jacquinet succeeded him in 1894 and remained president until his death in 1938. An honorary prize was founded by the Association, destined each year for the student of Philosophy or Sciences who has shown the best service to the College and success in his studies. In November, the Association had a Mass for Deceased Alumni at the College, and its General Assembly was held at the College in June until 1913, when it moved to Ascension Day. In October 1898, an annex of the College called "Small College of St, Stanislaus" was opened by the fathers, then, after their expulsion in 1901, by the Abbot Frezet. The classes were taught by the De La Salle Brothers of Ploërmel, who had helped with this teaching since 1893. This "Small Collège" lasted until 1903 when the brothers, secularized, were transferred to the Grand Collège, Faubourg Cérès. In 1900, Fr. Armand Poirier succeeded Rousselin as Rector; Virion remained prefect. The financial administration of the College was provided by a Civil Society, founded about 1887 and presided over by Mr. Alexander Marshal. Due to the Law on Congregations, voted on 3 July 1901, the Jesuit fathers were again obliged to leave the College.

After the departure of the Jesuits (1901 - 1907) - the expulsion (1907)

The fathers therefore left the College during the 1901 holidays, and founded a College in 1902 in Florennes, Belgium, for those of their pupils who were willing to emigrate. M. Auguste Gindre, Professor of Science at the Collège since 1893, announced the continuation as director of the École Saint-Joseph, and the re-entry took place on 3 October 1901, with, as superior, the Abbé Emile Charles. As to the organization of the College, pupils continued to be subjected to the same system of study and discipline, of moral and religious formation, as under the Jesuit fathers. In 1902, the office of prefect was entrusted to Mr. Gindre. There were three family houses at Reims in which the fathers hosted some boarders and heard confessions. But in 1906, Mr. Gindre made the prudential decision to allow Frs. Virion, Debeauvais, and Pottie to serve as chaplains to hear confessions, a religious exercise that the law did not forbid them. Teaching, religious ceremonies, major or alumni festivals, and theatrical performances continued as in the past, but pupils, as well as professors and alumni, felt the life of the College threatened. In 1902, several professors, two of whom held a high place at the College, Professor Chardon who taught science and Professor Crépin who taught rhetoric, arrived at the Collège de Reims, coming from the Collège de Dijon, On 25 September 1904, the Christian Brothers were expelled from their boarding school on the Rue de Venise. On 17 December 1906, Cardinal Luçon was expelled from the Archdiocese, and all major and minor seminaries were closed: the tribunal had appointed a liquidator. The Civil Society, which administered the College financially, claimed the allocation of its property for its benefit. but its rights were contested by the liquidator. On 6 August 1907 a judgment of the Court of Appeal awarded the liquidator the building of the Faubourg Cérès and the country house on the road to Louvois, which were placed under sequestration. Abbot Charles and the former pupils decided that the school would not disappear, even temporarily.

Year of transition (1907 - 1908)

Former students hoped to buy the building of the Faubourg Cérès, and, awaiting its adjudication, it was decided to resort, for a year, to a temporary installation. The College was split into two: classes ten through twelve were installed under the direction of Fr. Charles in the buildings of an old free school in the parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste on Flodoard street, placed at the College's disposal by the Abbé Béguin the parish pastor; the boarders of these classes were housed in the former convent of Divine Providence, 33 Saint-André Street, which also contained a residence run by Frs. Virion, Becquincourt, and Geoffroy. The teachers of Flodoard were lodged at the residence at 45 Rue David. For the classes three through nine, the former boarding-school of the Ladies of the Assumption was rented, at 16 Rue du Marc. Mr. Gindre was charged with its direction. The senior boarders were also lodged at Providence and part of the others at the Maison de Famille, 16 Rue des Templiers, headed by the Frs. Debeauvais and Pottié.This was a difficult year, both for discipline and for work, due to the small size of the premises as well as well as endless journeys, especially between Flodoard and Saint-André streets. First Communion took place in the Chapel of Providence on 7 June 1908. There were 24 communicants, aged 11, who had Fr. Pottié, Chaplain of the Third Division, as their inspiring teacher.

At the instigation of the Alumni Committee a Society was set up, on the basis of an unassailable legality, to ensure the material life of the College, the "Société Rémoise Immobilière" and the Secondary Education Company, with a capital of 140,000 francs paid by the shareholders. Mr. Edmond Rogelet was its first president. The Constituent Assembly was held on 20 July 1908. An initial auction of the confiscated buildings had taken place on 7 April 1908; but the price of 250,000 francs for the property of the Faubourg Cérès appeared excessive to the Alumni Committee, and they declined the purchase. No other purchaser appeared and on 21 July 1908 the second auction found the city of Reims outbidding everyone and the building of the Faubourg Cérès was awarded to the city for 253,000 francs. The Company could only redeem the furniture.

Saint-Joseph School, 37 rue de Venise (1908 - 2001)

Before the First World War (1908 - 1914)

the boarding house of the brothers, rue de Venise - early twentieth century.

Not having been able to retrieve the building from the Faubourg Cérès, decisions had to be taken quickly to ensure the opening of the College in October. The former boarding school of the Brothers in the Rue de Venise, on which Crédit Foncier had a mortgage, had been vacant since 1904. Negotiations were begun in 1907 with Crédit Foncier and, with the approval of the Superior General of the Brothers, a lease was signed with Crédit Foncier on 27 August 1908. Major work to restore the building was expedited and school opened on time at 37 rue de Venise on 8 October 1908. Mr. Gindre was charged with the direction of the College. The teaching staff consisted of priests, ecclesiastics, and laymen, many of whom had already taught for several years at the Collège Faubourg Cérès. They were, like the Board of Directors of the Society, the saviors of the College.

No Jesuit father was living at this new College. However, a police search was carried out at the Collège on 18 September 1911 at the office of the bursar, Mr. Charlier, with the removal of records and documents, and then at his home and at Mr. Gindre's. No Jesuit fathers were found at the College. The Administrative Society protested against this search. Three fathers, Virion, Debeauvais, and Pottié, residing at the family house, Rue Petit-Roland (present-day Paul-Adam Street), were, however, able to fill the duties of division chaplains from 1908 to 1914 at the College, ensuring the religious instruction and spiritual direction of the pupils. The College continued to thrive as in the past, going from 165 pupils in 1908 to 275 pupils in 1913, and successes in the Baccalaureate attested to the level of education. The regulations were again softened: Sunday vespers were no longer obligatory, the outsiders were still released on Sundays at 11 after Mass and the catechism class, and every morning, they were obliged to arrive at the College for Mass at 7.30. A Blessed Sacrament procession was held in the courtyards on the Friday of the Feast of the Sacred Heart, and on 3 June 1910 Fr. Virion consecrated the College to the Sacred Heart, before the statue in the gardens of the Faubourg Cérès. There was also the Director's Feast and the meeting of the Past Pupils, and then after 1913, on the feast of the Ascension, the festival of games in the playgrounds. In 1910 Fr. Charbonnehe entered the College as supervisor of the first division and Professor of History. He would play an important role in the history of the College after 1919. In 1913 the Board of Directors, to ensure stability for the College and fearing use the building as barracks under the three-year military law, proposed to the shareholders the purchase of the building at Crédit Foncier. As with the lease, an approach was made to the Superior General of the Brothers, who gave his consent. An increase in the capital of the Society was covered by the alumni and friends of the College, and on 19 June 1913 the purchase was made.

During the First World War (1914-1918)

The mobilization of almost all professors and supervisors and, from September 1914, the bombing of the city interrupted the schooling. The buildings sheltered the exiles from Belgians and innumerable refugees from the North. After the occupation and departure of the Germans, who spent only a few hours at the College, bombardments began and life in the cellars. The bombings inflicted some severe damage on the buildings, but none burned down. Brother Oswald, preserving the Collège from pillage and presided over the removal of furniture in 1917, tried to repair the shell damage, until total evacuation of the city was imposed in 1918.[5]

Between the two wars (1919 - 1939)

In spite of terrible wounds, the College was still standing, and one could envisage its rehabilitation. The religious situation, particularly with regard to the Congregations, appeared to have changed in France since the war. Before the reconstruction work was begun, Fr. Cotteau de Simencourt, Superior of the College, and a few members of the Board of Directors took the initiative with the Superior General of the Brothers in Paris to request that the brothers return to Reims and to reinstate their former boarding school, but the Brother General declined. The necessary repair work was undertaken to ensure the reopening of the College in October 1919. The same administrators were employed to restore the College: Mr. Marcel Gallice, President; Dr. René Jacquinet, managing director; Mr. Gindre, director; and Fr. Pierre Charbonnet, prefect (until 1930).[6]

The first repair effort was made on the building of the central group and on the building along Rue des Capuchins. In 1920, the great chapel was returned to worship. 1924 saw restoration completed at the College by the reconstruction of the large kitchen and refectory building, in which two dormitories of sixty beds each, with individual washbasins, replaced the old main hall of the festivities, dismantled in the bombing.[7] Mr. François Maille was architect for all these works. [8]

In 1924 the owner company proceeded to the acquisition of the house located at 27 Rue de Venise. The 28 and 29 of May 1924 saw the blessing of the commemorative marble plaques for the 245 teachers and ex-pupils who died in the Great War was celebrated.

The number of pupils rose to 518 in 1938. Tradition was maintained concerning methods of work and religious formation, but some regulations were relaxed: abandonment of the uniform, even the cap; entrance for the external, daily, moved to 8 o'clock; suppression of the Sunday catechism class; exit on Thursday and Sunday for boarders and also on Saturday evenings once a month. In January 1929, the newsletter Le Sourire de Reims was created, linking the college, families, and alumni, especially covering physical education and sports. To this end, a company was founded in 1926, the "Association Sportive Saint-Joseph des Champs", which acquired a large five-hectare plot belonging to the Cormontreuil retreat house. This marshy ground was cleared by the addition of 80,000 cubic meters of rubble and land and various playgrounds were laid out. Fr. Jilliot was the chief builder. Apart from the care given to sick pupils, preventive medical inspection was organized for the residents in 1927, and for all students in 1942, including pulmonary radiological monitoring of all staff.

In September 1933, a change was made in the management of the College: a new Society "The St. Joseph Association", composed of former students and parents, leased the building for nine years, to the Société Rémoise Immobilière, owner, and took over the management of the College. In 1938, the Company proprietor proceeded with a capital increase, which made it possible to buy the building at 31 Rue de Venise, to make necessary adjustments, the installation of laboratories and amphitheatres for the physics and chemistry courses, the installation of a new dormitory on the third floor of the large building, a glazed gallery along the buildings around the courtyard of the Sacred Heart. The central passage was removed and became the office of Father Prefect.

During the Second World War (1939 - 1945)

The mobilization of September 1939 and the new World War were the next serious disturbance in the life of the College: Father Prefect, the bursar, and most of the masters were immediately mobilized. On September 9, seven-eighths of the College was requisitioned for overflow from St. Joseph Hospital. Pastor Charbonnet, the Rector, obtained for the pupils the buildings and courtyards along the Rue des Capucins, along with the chapel, the rooms on the second and third floors of the building near the chapel to accommodate the professors, and the houses of 27 and 31 Rue de Venise. The entrance to the College was transferred to the Rue des Capucins. On the 2nd of October, 250 students along with 150 pupils of the Petit Séminaire were also requisitioned. These seminarians lodged at the Maîtrise, and the twenty boarders of the College at the Maison des Retraites of Cormontreuil. Lunch was served at the Misson restaurant on rue Gambetta. Fr. Charbonnet served as Rector and Father Henri Couvreur as Minister. In May 1940, during the holidays of Pentecost, saw the outbreak of the German offensive; the professors and nuns left Reims on the 14th of May and Father Charbonnet on the 18th. After the debacle and the armistice, Father Charbonnet was able to return to Reims on the 17th of July, and found the College completely occupied by the Germans; he was able to reestablish the chapel. A fire on 6 August, destroying part of the second floor of the building near the chapel, was the occasion for serious trouble for Fr. Charbonnet with the Commandanture, who accused him of setting fire to the buildings. In August, Fr. Robert Du Parc.arrived as Prefect.

The return, which could not be done on Rue de Venice, took place on October 1st on the premises of Notre-Dame Institute, Saint-Pierre-Les-Dames Street; the residents slept at 14 Rue Saint-Hilaire and the professors were installed at 7 Rue Rogier. In November 1940 the German health unit left Reims, leaving a detachment which did not leave until 28 April 1941. An annex to the the civilian hospital occupied the large dormitory building. On 23 June 1941 Fr. Du Parc was arrested by the Germans, tried in Chalons and acquitted.

The year 1942 marked an important turning point in the College's history. In recent years there had been a question of a renewal of the school structure, which no longer imposed the same regulations on students in the upper and lower classes.[9] Thus, in October 1942, the rector Father Leib launched "Teams" in the first Division in order to develop the personality of each individual in a climate of community friendship. After four years of experiment, the "Teams at Saint Joseph of Reims" was the topic of a program on Vatican Radio on 21 October 1946. There would be less supervision and more personal responsibility, as students are orgnaized into 12-member teams to study, work, and live together. Team leaders are appointed by the administration. Only the mid-week Mass remained obligatory. From 2 to 4 there's sports two days and on the other days a specific activity: drawing, photo, theater, puppets, printing, binding, wood, building, slums.[10]

In 1944-1945, with heating being impossible in the building on the Rue des Capucins, these classes were moved to the central building, including a classroom in the shower room. This was the year of the bombing which forced the suspension of team activities.[11]

From the Liberation to the Centenary (1945-1974)

The development of the College was constant and gradual, from 576 in 1947 to 948 in 1974, necessitating an extension of the Institution from the viewpoint of land and location.[12] With the help of loans or borrowings, nearby properties were purchased between 1953 and 1969, on Venice, Moulins, Capucins, l'Equerre, and Paul-Adam streets. Important construction was undertaken, in particular the first division building and a large gymnasium.[13]

The First Division building was erected in 1958-60 and opened in September 1960. It includes laboratories and a refectory, classrooms, team study rooms, and a third-floor dormitory. The former Visitation building on Rue de l'Équerre contained physics laboratories and photography, and the Expression, Palaeontology, Archeology teams. The land at Saint-Joseph-des-Champs was improved with the development of handball and volleyball courts and the creation of a 400-meter track. In 1970, the Sporting Association made the purchase, with a view to the expansion of the sports fields demanded by the increasing number of pupils, of the neighboring wooded land, "Le Bois", between Cormontreuil Road and the Vesle, owned by the Missionary Association. The annual Festival of the Teams Gala kept growing. The General Assembly of Past Pupils continues on Ascension Day, as teir association remains active. On the day of the Ascension 1949, the 75th anniversary of the College was celebrated and the history of the College was published, authored by Dr. André Jacquinet.

Due to the law of 8 July 1969 the Société Immobilière of the College, decided to become an Association under the 1901 Act. cited at the Extraordinary General Meeting of 6 December 1972, under the name of "Association Rémoise Immobilière et d'Enseignement Secondaire", with Jean Harmel as its Chairman.

Centenary at the end of the century (1974-2001)

Coming soon

School Saint-Joseph, 177 rue des Capucins (since 2001)

The Teams

In 1942, the Teams project was launched by Father André Valton. During the school year 2016 - 2017, the teams number 27, of which the following are the activities:[14] Team 1: Electricity (boy) Team 2 (boy) Team 3: Photo (boy) Team 4: Carpentry (boy) Team 5: Theater (boy) Team 6: (girl) Team 9: Culinary Arts (girl) Team 10: Sports (boy) Team 11: Graphic Arts (boy) Team 12: Stylist Team 18: Communication and Media (boy) Team 19: Deco and Creation (girl) Team 20: Music (girl) Team 21: Music (boy) Team 22: Culinary Arts (boy) Team 23: Picture (girl) Team 24: boy) Team 25: Theater (girl) Team 26: Plastic Arts (girl) Team 27: Art and Design (girl)

Ignatian Pedagogy

Pedagogy

Ratio Studiorum Societatis Iesu, 1598-1599

The young people have not yet reached their full maturity; so the educational process takes into account the developmental stages of all intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth and helps each student to mature gradually. Thus, all studies are person-centered, rather than a program to be insured. This means that every member of the educational team is not only an educator. His/her personality expresses itself beyond that and becomes for the young person not a model but a witness.

The growth in maturity and autonomy which are essential qualities for growth in freedom depend more on active participation than on passive reception. Hence personal work, opportunities for personal discovery and creativity, and an attitude of reflection.

Personal or group relationships with students will help adults of the educational community to be open to change, to continue learning; they will be more effective in their work. This is particularly important today because of the rapid changes in culture and the difficulty we may encounter in understanding and correctly interpreting cultural pressures on young people.

The search for excellence in school is normal, but only if it is situated in a wider context of human excellence. In the language of Ignatius of Loyola, "excellence" means magis, "more". The word "more" does not imply any comparison with others, nor any way of measuring progress on an absolute level. It is rather the most complete development of the possibilities of each individual at each stage of life, united with the desire to pursue this development throughout life and the willingness to put these gifts once developed into the service of others. The aim of Ignatian education is not to prepare a socio-economic elite, but to educate men who are leaders in service.[15]

Characteristics of a Jesuit Institution

(Text of November 2010)[16]

The pedagogical originality and the educational vitality of the Jesuit institutions are rooted in a pedagogy of freedom based on the experience of Ignatius Loyola.

A Jesuit school is a place where personal accompaniment is provided to pupils but also to adults who form the educational community(parents, teachers, employees, volunteers, members of the responsible associations and owners, Jesuits, alumni, etc.). Through regular talks, each one is led to always take a step further to develop the best of him/herself, as the Jesuit tradition of the magis signifies. Attention is also paid to the person concerned: the responsible association, with the support of the owner association and in close connection with the head of the establishment, to the coherence between what is said and done.

A Jesuit institution seeks to empower students to take charge of their living and class environment: learning autonomy and collective life, support, mutual help and emulation, valorisation of their responsibilities. ... This peer education is also shared between adults: they are strongly encouraged to become involved in the various bodies of animation, discernment and decision, in a spirit of service and friendship. This co-responsibility lies between the Ignace-Éducation network, the JECSE, and everywhere Jesuit institutions are located.

All that is proposed aims to open one freely to an encounter with the God of Jesus Christ. As Father Teilhard de Chardin liked to say, "by virtue of creation, and still more of the incarnation, nothing is profane here below to one who knows how to see." A coherent pastoral care throughout the school is at the center of a Jesuit establishment. Nurturing all educational and pedagogical practices, it integrates catechesis, chaplaincy, social action program (PAS), human formation. ... It concerns the whole of the educational community. Pastoral care involves the involvement of teachers, parents, staff, students, and alumni. To exist, it requires schedules, places, and means. It is based on the presence and visibility of the Christian community formed by the Christians present in the school.

A Jesuit school awakens to justice by offering students, with the irreplaceable assistance of adults, the possibility of experiencing service adapted to their age, and especially to the most fragile, leading them to have a benevolent look before being critical, on the world and all beings. This concern for justice does not go without a solidarity lived within the establishment and between the establishments of Ignatian Education. It is accompanied by a reflection led by those responsible to identify and seek to address social justice challenges.

The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius inspire ways of doing things that aim at the unification of the person and his or her commitment in the world. Ignatius always binds together intellectual experience and spiritual experience. In the Jesuit tradition, it is essential to make such a connection alive, joyful, and rich in meaning. Hence the importance of encouraging an inner life for all by means of practices that give rise to repetitions: initiation to prayer, retirement at the end of the year or in life, work between teachers on pedagogical practices, celebrations, CEP-Ignatian trainings. ... Each institution is called to always reinvent the spaces and the times that allow it to live what is targeted by these characteristics.

Establishments under Jesuit tutelage in France

Liste tirée du site Ignace de Loyola Éducation

The Saint Joseph chapel

The chapel was built between 1874 and 1876 by the architect Edouard Lamy in neo-Gothic style, employing iron, cast iron, stone and wood. It was inaugurated on 16 July 1876. It is considered an architectural masterpiece of the nineteenth century. The spire of the building culminates at more than 60 meters in height. It has a foundation on wooden piles to stabilize it on the waterlogged ground. It suffered damage from the First World War and its original stained glass is largely lost. New stained glass windows were made by the artist Jean-Paul Agosti

Alumni

The association

The Alumni Association of Saint Joseph of Reims was founded on 2 October 1892. It is intended to provide a link between the alumni of the school and a link between alumni and the institution. It runs a website with a digital directory.[17]

Some alumni

References

  1. ^ "Saint-Joseph Reims". Saint-Joseph Reims (in French). Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  2. ^    «Quelques nouvelles», Le Sourire de Reims,‎ septembre 1947
  3. ^ Docteur André Jacquinet, «Historique de l'Association des Anciens», Le Sourire de Reimsno 61,‎ 1954, p. 8 à 13
  4. ^ «Villas d'autrefois», Le Sourire de Reimsno 25,‎ décembre 1935, p. 51 à 54
  5. ^ Docteur André Jacquinet, Histoire du Collège Saint-Joseph de Reims 1874-1949, Les Équipes, 1952
  6. ^  «M. Maurice Lecoq », Le Sourire de Reimsno 83,‎ 1960, p. 1 à 4
  7. ^ «Souvenir du passé - Dortoir à venir», Le Sourire de Reimsno 32,‎ 1938, p. 16 et 17
  8. ^ «Monsieur François Maille», Le Sourire de Reims,‎ juillet 1949, p. 11 et 12
  9. ^ Bernard Leib SJ, «Les Équipes à Saint-Joseph de Reims», Le Sourire de Reimsno 37-38,‎ septembre 1947, p. 7 à 14
  10. ^ «Adieu à Bernard de Lattre», Le Sourire de Reimsno 51,‎ juillet 1951, p. 64 et 65
  11. ^ «Le Collège de 1939 à la Libération», Le Sourire de Reimsno 37-38,‎ septembre 1947, p. 1 et 2
  12. ^ «Le Père Albert Corset», Le Sourire de Reimsno 108,‎ septembre 1973, p. 4 à 6
  13. ^ «Le Gymnase», Le Sourire de Reimsno 79,‎ 1958, p. 106 à 109
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