Brebeuf College School 4.17

211 Steeles Avenue East
Toronto, ON M2M 3Y6
Canada

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Brebeuf College School is a publicly funded Roman Catholic all-boys high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded by the Jesuits in 1963, it is part of the Toronto Catholic District School Board and associated with the Presentation Brothers.HistorySt. Jean de BrébeufThe school was named after Saint Jean de Brébeuf, a French Jesuit priest (the priests who founded the school in 1963 were Jesuits of the Upper Canada Province) who first came to Canada in 1625, 17 years after the founding of the country by Champlain's French colonists in 1608. Brebeuf journeyed to the area around what is now Midland, Ontario and preached to the Huron people of that area. In 1649 an Iroquois raid on a Huron village captured de Brébeuf, aged 56, and others; they were ritually tortured and killed. De Brébeuf was canonised as a saint in 1930. In 1954 his grave was discovered by Father Denis Hegarty, S.J. at the present site of Ste.-Marie-among the Hurons, near Midland, with a plaque reading "P. Jean de Brébeuf /brusle par les Iroquois /le 17 de mars l'an/1649" (Father Jean de Brébeuf, burned by the Iroquois, 17 March 1649). de Brebeuf is the patron of Brebeuf College School.BeginningsConstruction of Brebeuf High School and the attached Jesuit Residence in 1963 was overseen by Bishop Francis Marrocco and Father Clement Crusoe S.J., in Willowdale, a new Toronto suburb surrounded by farms. The school opened with one hundred students in Grades 9 and 10 in September 1963, with a staff of eight Jesuit priests, one Jesuit brother, and six laymen. Bishops Philip Francis Pocock and Francis Anthony Marrocco presided at the official opening and solemn blessings on January 5, 1964, in front of a large crowd in the gymnasium. Brebeuf's first graduation class in 1966 consisted of 30 students, among them Michael Daoust, who became head of mathematics at Brebeuf.

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