The Father Charles John Pirroni of Jesus, the fifth successor of St. Joseph Calasanz in the Generalate was a great innovator, establisher of studies in the Calasanzian Order.
In this way, perhaps for the first time, the interested reader will be able to examine and contemplate more closely the clear idea and the true shape of the Calasanzian Order, the Piarist ministry and its pedagogy, which have gradually developed in the eventful course of the last decades.
Father Pirroni, a religious man, pious, learned, endowed with a strong intelligence and spirit, expressed in an appropriate way what Calasanz had already thought many times about the religious life that the Piarists were to bring, as well as about the increasingly effective implementation of the work and educational and cultural service of the Institute. The Founder, due to his advanced age and other sad circumstances known to all researchers, had hardly been able to complete some of these things. Pirroni can rightly be considered the first efficient culmination of the Calasanzian enterprise and service, and at the same time the father of the future centuries of the Founder’s work; and even, in a certain sense, the second founder of the Institute and of the Religion of the Pious Schools.
06. Fr. Charles John Pirroni. Sixth General of the Pious Schools
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György Sántha
Madrid-Rome, 2025
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