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Bishop, cardinal
Born Jean-Claude COLIN
French priest, founder of the Society of Mary (Marists)
Born on August 7, 1790 in Saint-Bonnet-le-Troncy, France , France
Died on November 15, 1875 in La Neylière, France
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Small minor seminaries sprang up all over France as the revolution drew to a close. With his brother Pierre, Colin attended the minor seminary at Saint-Jodard, he also spent time at Alix and Verrières where he was a contemporary of Marcellin Champagnat and John Vianney In 1813 he entered the major seminary of Saint-Irénée at Lyon.
... Colin was born at St-Bonnet-le-Troncy, in the Rhone department of France. His father had sheltered priests during the turmoil of the French Revolution. Both parents died when Colin was only 4 years old. The revolution had resulted in a 70% reduction in priest numbers in France.
Small minor seminaries sprang up all over France as the revolution drew to a close. With his brother Pierre, Colin attended the minor seminary at Saint-Jodard, he also spent time at Alix and Verrières where he was a contemporary of Marcellin Champagnat and John Vianney In 1813 he entered the major seminary of Saint-Irénée at Lyon.
Towards the end of [1814] Jean-Claude Courveille who had been a student in another seminary transferred to Saint-Irénée. His diocese had been suppressed and merged into Lyon. Courveille recruited a group of senior seminarians to his idea of founding a Society of Mary. Courveille had been cured of semi-blindness after prayer to Our Lady of Le Puy and in gratitude had the inspiration and inner conviction that just as there had arisen at the time of the Reformation a Society dedicated to Jesus, the Jesuits so at this time of Revolution there could be a Society dedicated to Mary whose members would call themselves Marists. This idea seems to have coalesced with nascent ideas of Colin's to begin a group dedicated to Mary, the Mother of God.
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