Piarist

[ pahy-er-ist ]

noun

1. a member of a Roman Catholic teaching congregation founded in Rome in 1597.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Piarist¹

1835–45; < New Latin piār ( um ), in phrase ( patrēs scholārum ) piārum (fathers) of religious (schools) + -ist

Example Sentences

Historians who had addressed the suppression — nearly all of them Piarist Fathers, as members of the order were known — said that the Pious Schools had been shut down as punishment for the order’s close association with the astronomer Galileo, who had been convicted of heresy by the Inquisition in 1633.

From Washington Post

One Piarist priest, Father Stefano Cherubini, was a particular focus of the accusations.

From Washington Post

Angelo da Acri, a Capuchin priest who died in October 1739, and Faustino Míguez, a Piarist priest who founded the Calasanziano Institute of the Daughters of the Divine Shepherd, will also be canonized October 15.

From Washington Times

He attended the Gymnasium of Piarist Fathers, a Catholic teaching order that emphasizes classics, history, languages, liberal arts and philosophy.

From Nature

He attended what he described as one of the best schools in Budapest run by the Piarist Fathers, a Roman Catholic order.

From New York Times