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Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat, FMS (20 May 1789 – 6 June 1840) was a French Catholic religious born in Le Rosey, village of Marlhes, near St. Etienne , France. He was the founder of the Marist Brothers , a religious congregation of brothers in the Catholic Church devoted to Mary and dedicated to education.
Marcellin Joseph Benoit Champagnat (1789-1840) - biography. priest, of the Society of Mary, Founder of the Institute of the Little Brothers of Mary (Marist Brothers) photo. MARCELLIN CHAMPAGNAT was born on 20th May 1789, in Marlhes, a village in the mountains of east-central France.
In 1816, the newly ordained Marcellin Champagnat, consecrated to Mary, felt a personal call by God to found a religious community of Brothers that would bring the message of Jesus' love to neglected young people.
St Marcellin Champagnat founded our worldwide community of Brothers. He followed his calling from God with the simple and ordinary Christian faith in his heart together with hard work. His passion and love of God at once drove and comforted him throughout his life, while allowing him to live surrounded by those who loved him and all they had ...
Marcellin Champagnat, a French Marist priest, is the founder of the Marist Brothers of the Schools or Little Brothers of Mary. The attractiveness of his personality does not arise on first meeting with him, but through a continuous, simple contact: as Mary of Nazareth made her presence felt in an unassuming manner.
1789-1840. Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a Marist Priest, dreamed of a worldwide community of brothers wholeheartedly devoted to making Jesus Christ known and loved among children and young people, especially the least favored. He embraced God’s call to found the Marist brothers, the religious congregation that continues to pursue his dream today.
Jul 16, 2024 · Marcellin Champagnat was born on May 20, 1789, the year of the French Revolution, and died on June 6, 1840. He was a priest of the Society of Mary and the founder of the Little Brothers of...
Founder of the Little Brothers of Mary or The Marist Teaching Brothers – 1789-1840 LIFE, WORKS AND VIRTUES Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat was born on 20 May 1789 in Marlhes, near Saint Etienne (Loire), and was baptized on the following day, the feast of the Ascension.
St Marcellin Joseph Benoit Champagnat was born on 20 May 1789 in Marlhes, France. He was the ninth child of a very Christian family, from whom he received his basic education. When he...
Jun 6, 2022 · While June 6 is the feast commemorating the death of Marcellin Champagnat, it is important to see this day as one commemorating the gift of Marcellin’s life, vision, and mission which we enthusiastically embrace today in 2022, 182 years after his death.
