Edmund Rice was born in 1762 in Callan Ireland he was the fourth child to be born out of six and the first one of them to be properly educated which then led to him becoming a mercantile apprenticeship under his Uncle. In 1785 he married but in 1789 his wife died to a fever (most likely cholera).Edmund Rice founded the Christian Brothers in the year 1802, it was founded because Edmund Rice wanted to join a religious institute but instead of doing that he with the support of Dr Thomas Hussey decided to found a religious community to help with the education of disadvantaged youth. A mission to Sydney, Australia in 1842 failed within a couple of years. Brother Ambrose Treacy established a presence in Melbourne, Australia in 1868, in 1875 in Brisbane,
