Cardenal Newman College Buenos Aires, Argentina Senior Year Group visit Mount Sion, Sept 29 and 30, 2009.
The year group of 80 students and staff from Cardenal Newman College Buenos Aires visited and toured the Edmund Rice International Heritage Centre at Mount Sion in September.
Maria Forde Concert, Blessed Edmund Rice Chapel, September 29 2009.
The Australian singer/songwriter Maria Forde, who spent some time in Ireland teaching, composing and performing music, is of Irish decent. She returned to Mount Sion for the second year running. This time she was accompanied by a group of Australian pilgrims in a tour of Ireland.
Photo by David Wilson.
On the evening of Septemer 29 Maria performed a concert of sacred and traditional songs. A number of local residents, staff and Brothers of the Edmund Rice International Heritage Centre and the touring Australian group formed the audience. It was a very intimate evening of inspirational music and song.
Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST) was officially launched in Dublin Castle on 18 June 2008.
The Congregation of the Christian Brothers founded by Blessed Edmund Rice has played an important role in Catholic Education in Ireland for over two hundred years through primary and post-primary schools.
The Congregation decided to hand on the trusteeship of the schools in the Republic of Ireland to a lay trust company - the Edmund Rice Schools Trust.
The Christian Brothers, in common with other religious congregations, passed on the trusteeship of their schools to a separate and independent trust - the Edmund Rice Schools Trust (ERST). The main reason for this was to ensure the maintenance of the unique heritage of Catholic education in the Edmund Rice tradition, which has been developed over 200 years by lay staff and Brothers.
The Congregation established a team to plan for this complex task, which involved just over a hundred primary and post-primary schools throughout Ireland.
The new Trust became operational from 1 September 2008.
