José de Calasanz, 1557 – 1648. Spanish Catholic priest also known as Joseph Calasanz, Joseph Calasanctius and Iosephus a Mater Dei. In Rome, in 1597, he opened the first free public school in Europe and subsequently, with the help of the Piarist religious order, which he founded, opened a chain of Pious Schools which provided free education to the sons of the poor. He later opened other Pious Schools around Europe. He was canonized as a saint in 1767. After a work by Vincenzo à Santa Maria.

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