{"id":49423,"date":"2025-06-06T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=49423"},"modified":"2025-06-06T08:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T06:34:29","slug":"saint-marcellin-champagnat-founder-of-the-marist-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/foco\/san-marcelino-champagnat-fundador-de-los-hermanos-maristas\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Marcellin Champagnat, founder of the Marist Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saint Marcellin Champagnat was born in 1789 in Rosey (Loire, France). He felt a priestly vocation and entered the seminary of Verri\u00e9res and then the seminary of Lyon. He was a Marist priest and <a href=\"https:\/\/champagnat.org\/es\/instituto-marista-2\/fundador\/\">founder<\/a> of the Institute of the Marist Brothers. In love with God, he enthusiastically devoted himself to children and young people, especially those most in need.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I saw children and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.franciscanos.org\/agnofranciscano\/m06\/dia0606.html\">uneducated young people<\/a> Neither catechism nor catechism, St. Marcellin exclaimed: \"We need Brothers\". And on January 2, 1817, with two young men, he began the project of the Institute of the Brothers of Mary. An international community of brothers <a href=\"https:\/\/champagnat.org\/es\/instituto-marista-2\/fundador\/\">continues his dream today<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Asia Region, General Chapter in the Philippines<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pope St. John Paul II canonized Marcellin on April 18, 1999 in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican and recognized him as a saint of the universal Church. During these months, the Marists are living the preparation for the <a href=\"https:\/\/champagnat.org\/es\/capitulo-general-2025\/\">XXIII General Chapter<\/a>which will take place in the Philippines starting September 8. The region of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/news\/pope-highlights-airs-of-spring-on-his-trip-to-asia-and-oceania\/\">Asia<\/a> has countries with a Marist presence of 50, 75, 100 or more years, and others with the 'Ad gentes' project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>St. Norbert, German, and St. Rafael Gu\u00edzar, Mexican&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Others <a href=\"https:\/\/www.franciscanos.org\/agnofranciscano\/m06\/dia0606.html\">santos<\/a> of the day are the Germanic St. Norbert, a priest and founder of the Canons Regular. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arteguias.com\/ordenpremostratense.htm\">Premonstratensians<\/a>He was a preacher in France and Germany, and Archbishop of Magdeburg. And the Mexican priest Saint Rafael Gu\u00edzar Valencia, also a priest, victim of persecution against the Church, for which he took refuge first in the United States and Guatemala, and then in Cuba. He was bishop of Veracruz, almost always in exile or on the run, and was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Marcelino Champagnat naci\u00f3 en 1789 en Rosey (Loira, Francia). Percibi\u00f3 la vocaci\u00f3n sacerdotal e ingres\u00f3 en el seminario de Verri\u00e9res, y luego en el de Lyon. Fue sacerdote marista y fundador del Instituto de los Hermanos Maristas. Enamorado de Dios, se entreg\u00f3 con entusiasmo a favor de los ni\u00f1os y j\u00f3venes, especialmente de los [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":49426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[549,548],"tags":[2190],"class_list":["post-49423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evangelizacion","category-foco","tag-san-marcelino-champagnat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>San Marcelino Champagnat, fundador de los Hermanos Maristas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"La Iglesia celebra el 6 de junio al sacerdote franc\u00e9s san Marcelino Champagnat, fundador de los Hermanos Maristas.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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