Another important Catholic educator to the Caribbean area wasVENERABLE BROTHER VICTORINO ARNAUD PAGES.
Born in France Christian Schools , due to the expulsion of the religious from France Canada , but soon after, at age 20, offered to go and found new schools in Cuba
This Caribbean island welcomed him and it was there that he worked from 1905 until 1961, when another persecution meant another bitter exile. He was the founder of the La Salle Association in 1919, of the male and female Catholic Action in 1928, of the Catholic University Hostel in 1946 and of the Catholic Family Movement in 1953.
Br. Victorino, received important awards for his efforts for better education andin 1951 he was awarded the doctorate "Honoris Causa" of the Santo Tomás de Aquino University in
Exiled a second time by the dictator Fidel Castro in 1961, he spent his remaining energy trying to reorganize the various associations he founded among Cubans scattered in New York, Miami and other Caribbean countries. He died in San Juan de Puerto Rico on April 16, 1966.
He said of himself that he was a "Cuban born in France Frances