Marists

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 297 words | Copyright

Marists. The ‘Society of Mary’ founded at Lyons in 1816 by the Ven. Jean Claude Marie Colin. The congregation comprises priests and lay brothers whose main activities are educational and missionary work. The W. Pacific was allotted to them as their special mission field in 1836.

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