History of the Marists

Marist Fathers

As well as being the founder of the Marists, Jean-Claude Colin was also founder of the Marist Fathers, and co-founder (with Jeanne Marie Chavoin - see below) of the Marist Sisters. Please see the main Marist Education page for more details about Jean-Claude Colin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jean-Claude Colin

Marist Brothers

As well as being the founder of Marist Education, Marcellin Champagnat also founded the Marist Brothers.

Marcellin was born in 1789. He was ordained a priest in 1816, the same year that he founded an order of teaching brothers and his first schools. During his short lifetime he established 47 schools. Marcellin was not an intellectual, but a peasant, an unlikely person to start a school system. It was his sympathy and compassion for children who were uneducated and ignorant that led him to establish his schools.

After his death in 1840 (aged 51), his system and his teaching methods became far more widespread. By 1860 there were 400 schools and by 1900 there were 560 schools in France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, South Africa, Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marcellin Champagnat

Marist Brothers website:
http://www.champagnat.org/en/200000000.asp

Marist Sisters

Jeanne Marie Chavoin founded the Marist Sisters with Jean-Claude Colin (see above).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeanne Marie Chavoin

The Marist Sisters website: http://www.marists.org/

Marist Missionary Sisters

Marie Francoise Perroton founded the Marist Missionary Sisters. Marist Missionary Sisters are engaged in missionary activity in twenty-nine countries of the Pacific, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marie Francoise Perroton

Marist Missionary Sisters website: http://maristmissionarysmsm.org/