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There are about 1,200 Marianists: 405 priests, two bishops, and 800 brothers on four continents and 38 countries. The Marianists say that they "devote the major part of their efforts to inculturation to become rooted in new countries, in Asia and Africa, and also to be in tune with the surrounding cultures that challenge us and that we call modern or postmodern."
The Marianists, also called the Society of Mary was founded in 1817 by Blessed William Joseph Chaminade, a priest who survived the persecutions of Catholics during the French Revolution. There are currently 500 priests and over 1,500 religious in the organization. The Society is one of the four branches of the Marianist Family.
Pranciskus Karevičius (Priest: 17 May 1886 to 27 February 1914) Andrei Katkoff (Priest: 30 July 1944 to 14 November 1958) Jan Paweł Lenga (Priest: 28 May 1980 to 13 April 1991) Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Priest: 20 November 1898; Superior General: 14 July 1911 to 23 October 1918) Jan Olszanski (Priest: 15 November 1942 to 16 January 1991)
It was integrated into the Society of Mary on April 22, 1842 and was approved by Rome in 1863. The Marist brothers are religious (but they are not priests, unlike the Marist fathers). Marist brothers live in community. Their mission is to help and educate young people with a particular intention for poor, marginalized or neglected children.
The Family's four branches are the Society of Mary (Marianists) (S.M.), a religious institute of priests and religious brothers; the Daughters of Mary Immaculate (F.M.I., or also known as Marianist Sisters), an institute of religious sisters; the Alliance Mariale (A.M.), an historically all-female secular institute, composed of laypeople, who ...
Fr. George Elder, [173] Educator and an editor of "Catholic Advocate" of Louisville, Kentucky. Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, [174] [175] Academic who criticized the standards of 1950s Catholic education and was a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association. Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton, [176] Theologian.
Manhattanville University (Purchase, New York) – ended affiliation with the Catholic Church in 1971; Marist College (Poughkeepsie, New York) – ownership transferred to a lay board of trustees in 1969 [4] Marymount Manhattan College (New York, New York) Maryville University (St. Louis, Missouri) – renounced affiliation with the Catholic ...
Society of Mary (Marists), a Catholic religious congregation of priests and brothers, founded in 1816 at Lyon, France, by Father Jean-Claude Colin and others. Marist Brothers , a Catholic religious congregation of brothers with affiliated lay people founded in France, at La Valla near Lyon in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat , a young French ...