André Coindre

[2] In 1815, he worked with Claudine Thévenet to establish the Association of the Sacred Heart, which three years later became the congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary.

As a chaplain in the prisons of Lyon, Father André realized that the young detainees had little hope upon release to help them avoid delinquency.

His mission became the moral, intellectual, and religious development of young orphan boys left in distress by the consequent disintegration of family life in the wake of the Revolution.

[3] By 1819, Coindre set up an orphanage and trade school near Lyon for homeless boys, and a haven in which young offenders were provided vocational training and Christian formation.

On 30 September 1821 ten men met Coindre at the chapel of the Shrine of Notre-Dame de Fourvière and made private vows in the chapel there, thus founding the Fratres a Sacratissimo Corde Iesu (Brothers of the Sacred Heart), a Roman Catholic religious community primarily devoted to the education of youth.

[4] Founded in 1854, Saint Stanislaus is a Catholic, all-boys boarding and day school serving young men in grades 7 through 12.