Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Jean-Claude, born on 7 August 1790 at the hamlet of Barbery, in the Beaujolais region of central France, the son of Jacques Colin and his wife Marie Gonnet, who had married in 1771. He was the eighth of a total of nine children: Claudine, Jean, Mariette, Sébastien, Jeanne-Marie, Pierre, Anne-Marie (who died at birth), Jean-Claude and Joseph.
Venerable Jean-Claude Colin, founder of the Society of Mary The Society of Mary ( Latin : Societas Mariæ ), better known under the name Marist, is a religious congregation under pontifical right. Born in Cerdon (France) under the leadership of Jean-Claude Colin , the Society of Mary was recognized by an apostolic brief on April 29, 1836 and is ...
Finally in 1817, when she was 31 years old, she received a letter from Fr Pierre Colin, brother of Jean-Claude Colin, who had once been parish priest in Coutouvre, inviting her to Cerdon to collaborate in the Marist project. She knew immediately that this was where God was calling her. With her close friend Marie Jotillon, she set off for Cerdon.
The Marists were founded by Father Jean-Claude Colin in France in 1816. Pope Gregory XVI, approved the religious institute in 1836. The Little Brothers of Mary and the Sisters of the Holy Name of Mary, commonly called Marist Brothers and Marist Sisters, were reserved for separate institutes.
Jeanne-Marie Chavoin (29 August 1786 – 30 June 1858) and Jean-Claude Colin together founded the Marist Sisters, a Catholic religious institute of women. Jeanne-Marie was born in the village of Coutouvre, France. She met Fr Pierre Colin when he was parish priest at Coutouvre.
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 ...
Marist College was established as small private girls' school in 1928. [5] [6] It was founded by the Marist Sisters, [7] a congregation or order of Roman Catholic women started in France during the early 19th century by Jeanne-Marie Chavoin and Jean-Claude Colin. [8]
Among his companions were Jean-Marie Vianney and Jean-Claude Colin. [6] He was no natural scholar but through hard work and the support of his mother and aunt he was finally ordained. [7] It was here that the idea for the Society of Mary was conceived and promoted by a group of seminarians, including Champagnat.