The Congregation of Presentation Brothers is an international
Catholic
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congregation
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of
laymen
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founded in 1802 in
Waterford
"Waterford remains the untaken city"
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Ireland
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, by a local Irish businessman,
Edmund Ignatius Rice
Edmund Ignatius Rice ( ga, Éamonn Iognáid Rís; 1 June 1762 – 29 August 1844) was a Catholic missionary and educationalist. He was the founder of two religious institutes of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and t ...
, now
Blessed
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Edmund Ignatius Rice. Presentation Brothers live and work in Ireland, England, USA, Canada, Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Grenada with about 100 Brothers throughout these countries.
The Brothers take three promises—
poverty, chastity and obedience—and live together in small groups called "communities". The motto of the congregation was adopted from that of the Jesuits: "''
Ad Majorem Dei Gl