Marcellin Champagnat
French priest and founder of Marist Brothers / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat, FMS (20 May 1789 ā 6 June 1840) was a French Catholic religious born in Le Rosey, village of Marlhes, near St. Etienne (Loire), 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. His feast day is 6 June, his death anniversary.
Marcellin Champagnat FMS | |
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Priest & Founder | |
Born | (1789-05-20)20 May 1789 Le Rosey, France |
Died | 6 June 1840(1840-06-06) (aged 51) Saint-Chamond, France |
Venerated in | Catholic Church |
Beatified | 29 May 1955, The Vatican by Pope Pius XII |
Canonized | 18 April 1999, The Vatican by Pope John Paul II |
Feast | 6 June |
Patronage | Education, teachers, and simplicity |
Champagnat was ordained as a priest on 22 July 1816 and was part of a group led by Jean-Claude Colin, who founded the Society of Mary, a separate religious congregation to the Marist Brothers teaching order Champagnat founded later. Champagnat was born in the year of the storming of the Bastille, the start of the French Revolution. The religious, political, economic, and social unrest of the times he lived influenced his priorities and life path.