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Ignorantine, a. and n. Eccl. Hist.|ɪgnəˈræntɪn|
[ad. F. ignorantin, f. ignorant ignorant, after bénédictin, capucin, etc.: see -ine.]
Ignorantine friars, Ignorantines: a name applied to themselves in humility by the members of a religious order, the Brethren of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, founded in 1495 to minister to the sick poor; they were introduced into France by Mary de Medici, and subsequently devoted themselves to the instruction of the poor (cf. ignorant a. 1 quot. 1693 and n. b). Hence, ‘by confusion, and sometimes in mockery’ (Littré), the name is given in France to the ‘Brethren of the Christian Schools’, or ‘Christian Brothers’, a community founded c 1680, for the spread of education among the poor.
1861M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 37 Both the ‘Ignorantine Friars’ and the old village pedagogues are greatly regretted in the country. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1061 Ignorantines..the name of the members of an institution founded in the beginning of the 18th century in France, by the abbot Baptiste de la Salle. |