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477: 589: 22: 342:, also on the Suva Street property. In 1936, after a considerable struggle with the civil authorities, who opposed secondary education for locally born children, the Brothers were allowed to reopen their secondary classes to all races. Thus the Marist Brothers High School had its beginnings in Suva Street. The High School was built at Bau Street during 1948, ready to begin the year there in 1949. 355:
For the past four decades Marist Brothers High School has dominated athletics in Fiji. Athletics is a unifying force for the Marist community who come together every year to assist athletes for the annual Coca-Cola Games and later on in international meets. It is the only school in Fiji that won
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in 1872 and in New Zealand in 1876. On 27 August 1888, three Marist brothers, Harvey, Vincent and Alphonsus, arrived in Suva to begin a school for the children of Catholic Europeans. This was in response to Bishop Vidal's request to Brother Theophane, the Brother Superior General in France. On 7
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September 1888, they began their school in a house, just above the Lilac Theatre in Waimanu Road. In 1889 they moved to Suva Street. At first only European boys were admitted but by 1897 Brothers Columba and Claudius had begun a school for
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boys and other races, known as the Indian School or the Cosmopolitan School, on the corner of Suva Street and Toorak Road. By 1936 this had developed into
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of the Marist Brothers). Marcellin's desire to have brothers to teach the rural children grew after his visit to the bedside of a sixteen-year-old,
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tradition, founded in 1946 by the order of Marist Brothers, which has had a presence in Fiji since 1844. The counterpart school for girls is
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National Secondary Schools big three sports, Soccer, Rugby and Athletics, titles in same year in 1976.
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In 1912, Brothers Augustine, Alphonsus and Loyola began secondary classes in
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Marist Brothers High School was founded and has been run by members of the
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Fiji Education Commission Report 1909,p.53.cited in Robert Nicole,
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order since it opened to students in 1949. Founded by Saint
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School in Carew Street, off Bau Street Flagstaff, Suva, Fiji
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whom St. Marcellin discovered knew nothing of his faith.
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Disturbing History: resistance in early colonial Fiji
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The Marist Brothers in New Zealand Fiji & Samoa
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Non-profit All-boys Secondary education institution
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