HISTORICAL TIMELINE
1819
1837
1845
Brothers Antonin, Fulgence and Aubin establish the first school operated by the Brothers in the United States. Ste. Geneviève Academy in Ste. Geneviève, Missouri, operated until 1822. Brother Aidant, along with Brothers Adalbertus, Rombaud and Euverte, arrive in Montréal from France and establish the first permanent foundation of the Institute in North America. The school, which is not named, opens three days before Christmas 1837. The school moves in 1840 and is called Saint-Laurent School.
today’s Calvert Hall College High School. Brother Francis is the first American Brother. (Pictured: Calvert Hall’s original building)
1864
1882
The Institute creates the Province of the United States of America and names Brother Ambrose Roarke as Visitor. Christian Brothers Winery begins operations. The winery is nearly lost during the depression of 1929 but finds success again in the 1940s and 1950s.
Brother Francis McMullen returns to his hometown of Baltimore at the age of 17 after completing the novitiate in Montréal. He and Brother Edward Whitty begin classes in the school that would become
In 1957, the winery is separately incorporated as Mont La Salle Vineyards, a commercial, tax-paying entity, with royalties used to support educational works, communities and novitiate in the District of San Francisco. The operation and rights to the name are sold to Heublein, Inc., in 1989.
