André Coindre

Father André Coindre was born on 26 February 1787 in Lyon, France and died on 30 May 1826 in Blois, France. Coindre died by falling out of a window. Following André's death, his brother, François Coindre, ran the organization that André originally founded called the Brothers of the Sacred Heart.

André Coindre

Father André Coindre was founder of the Fratres a Sacratissimo Corde Iesu (Brothers of the Sacred Heart), a Roman Catholic religious order primarily devoted to high school and elementary school education; the brotherhood is also a missionary society.

The Brothers of the Sacred Heart named a boarding school Coindre Hall in honor of the order's founder. The school operated in Huntington, New York, from 1939 to 1971. In 1955, the Brothers of the Sacred Heart took over the running of St Columba’s College in St Albans in England.

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