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| | Xaverian Brothers Sponsored Schools - Founder Theodore J. Ryken |
 | | Theodore James Ryken, the founder of the Xaverian Brothers, was born August 30, 1797 in the little village of Elshout, North Brabant, Holland, of middle class parents whose ardent Catholicity is the only thing that is now known of them. |
 | | Whether at this time he thought of founding a congregation of teaching Brothers is doubtful, but we know that he gave himself generously to works of zeal--at one time as a catechist, then in helping to conduct an orphanage, and again in caring for cholera patients in North Holland. |
 | | The spirit of the Xaverian Brothers, on the other hand, can be be traced to the influence of the Jesuit confessor and counsellor of Mr. |
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