Brothers of Our Lady of the Fields

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The Brothers of Our Lady of the Fields are a Roman Catholic Canadian congregation.

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They were founded in 1902 at St-Damien de Buckland in the Diocese of Quebec by Rev. M.J.-O. Brousseau. Its object is to train orphans in industrial and agricultural pursuits, and the arts of colonizations.

The mother-house is at St-Damien in Bellechasse County, Lac Vert, Province of Quebec, Canada.

There were in the early 20th century six brothers and four novices.

• The Sisters of Notre Dame of Perpetual Help, a female sister congregation also founded by Rev. M. J.-O. Brousseau in 1892, care for the orphans up to the age of twelve years; they are then confided to the care of the Brothers for the purposes above indicated.

[edit] Source

• This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia. [1]