Benildus Romançon
Christian Brother, educator and saint (1805–1862)
Benildus Romançon, F.S.C. (French: Bénilde; born Pierre Romançon; 14 June 1805 – 13 August 1862) was a French schoolteacher and member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers) who was declared a saint by the Catholic Church in 1967. His feast day is 13 August.
Life
He was born Pierre Romançon on 14 June 1805, in the town of Thuret, Puy-de-Dôme, in France to a farming family. A small and frail-looking boy, he was not cut out physically to be a farmer, but his enrollment in a Christian Brothers school at Riom led him to his calling as a teacher. He was so far ahead of his classmates in elementary school that when he was only 14 years old the Brothers often assigned him as a substitute teacher.
He joined the Brothers in 1820 and served at several Brothers' schools in south-central France. In 1841 he was appointed Director of a school in Saugues, an isolated village on a barren plateau in southern France. For the next twenty years he worked quietly and effectively as teacher and principal to educate the boys in the village and some from the neighboring farms, many of whom were in their teens and had never been to school before.
Small as he was, he was known as a strict but fair disciplinarian. He also looked after his students by preparing meals in the Brothers' kitchen for hungry students, converting old Brothers' robes into coats or pants for them, and spending hours tutoring students who learned more slowly than others.
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