Montfort Brothers of St. Gabriel is a Congregation of Religious Brothers founded by St. Montfort in early 18th century in France. It soon spread to all the 5 continents and today they are found in 31 countries doing yeomen service to humanity in the form of general, vocational and specialized education.
The Indian sector started functioning in 1903 and today after 100 years there are 7 Provinces. They work in 159 educational, social and cultural establishments throughout the country. The activities of the Brothers in India are as multifarious as the needs of the country. They are found in schools, technical institutions and colleges of higher learning, in educational and pedagogical research in the special education and rehabilitation of the blind and deaf, in caring for the orphans and street children, in youth organization, in the sports field, in the urban slums and remote tribal villages and in movements of civil rights and communal amity.
Today, the religious order that started the Gabriel Institutions across the globe has reached far and wide by his vision and has continued to march forward doing good works to the Lord serving the young, particularly the disabled and the poor. The beautification process of Fr. Gabriel Deshayes has already reached to almost 32 countries, with 600 centres serving 500000 people around the globe for the past 300 years.