Marianist Resources

Contents: Family history -- Going underground -- The unthinkable becomes possible -- Animating the family of Mary -- Administering the Misericorde -- Engaging others in the work -- Enter freely, stay freely -- Impact of legal issues -- Extension of the work of the Misericorde -- The final years -- The Marianist family today -- Marianists in lay communities.

Translation of En Los Orígenes de la Familia Marianista: Apuntes de historia marianista desde el nacimiento hasta la muerte del beato Chaminade, published by Servicio de Publicaciones Marianistas, 2001. Contents: By way of introduction -- Infancy of William Joseph Chaminade -- Mussidan -- The Revolution -- Exile of Blessed Chaminade -- Infancy of Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon -- Exile of Adèle. Her First Communion -- Mlle de Lamourous and the Miséricorde -- Blessed Chaminade's Marian Sodality of Lay People -- Little Association of Adèle -- A providential meeting : the little association joins the sodality -- Toward the foundation of the religious orders -- Founding of the Daughters of Mary -- Founding of the Society of May -- Preview : An outline of the first ten years of expansion of the two orders -- Expansion of the Daughters of Mary until the death of Adèle -- First works of the Society of Mary -- Significant history of Saint Remy -- Revolution of 1830 and its consequences -- History of the Constitutions and the Decree of Praise -- Cavalry of the Founder : last years of Blessed Chaminade -- Resignation of Father Chaminade -- Calvary of the Founder : from the Arbitration Decision of 1844 to the General Chapter of 1845 -- Calvary of the Founder : from the General Chapter of 1845 to his death -- Glory of the Founder : his beatification.

Contents: Why the Church "Makes" Saints. -- 1. The Call to Holiness. -- 2. The Constant Relevance of the Saints. -- 3. Our Friends the Saints. -- 4. Canonized Sanctity. -- II: The Marianist Causes. -- 1. The Marianist Saints. -- 2. The "Constellation" of the Founders. -- 3. The Witnesses to Christ in Difficult Moments. -- 4. The Saints of Education. -- 5. What Can We Do?