Your vocation is strictly missionary; going from one place to another preached the word of God, reconciling, catechizing, visiting the sick and jailed and practicing the works of mercy. They have special attention to the most forgotten, the poor and those who suffer injustice./p>

The Marists we strive to be like Mary. We imitate his presence and action in the life of Jesus and the pioneering years of the early Church. Marists inspired by Mary in the Holy Family of Nazareth and among the disciples at Pentecost.

The Marists are women and men who want to live the gospel in the manner of Mary. We distributed worldwide by the four cardinal points but united in one heart and one mind under the protection of Mary, Mother of Jesus.

Jean Claude Colin is the founder of the Society of Mary and the Brothers. Born in a peasant village, Saint-Bonnet-le Troncy, Lyons region of France in l790. Died in a quiet and secluded, and has long yearned and searched.

Peter Chanel was born in Potière, Cuet village people, near Belley, in the department of Ain​​, France, and died in the village of Poi, near the northeastern coast of the Polynesian island of Futuna, at the hands of assassins commanded by Musumusu.