1. Jean-Claude Colin, SM was a French priest who became the founder of the Society of Mary.
14 Facts About Jean-Claude Colin
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Jean-Claude Colin was the eighth of a total of nine children: Claudine, Jean, Mariette, Sebastien, Jeanne-Marie, Pierre, Anne-Marie, Jean-Claude and Joseph.
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Jean-Claude Colin's house was boarded up and all his goods were sold off.
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Jacques Jean-Claude Colin died not quite three weeks later, leaving the children orphaned.
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Jean-Claude Colin was a deeply religious woman, but her version of religion was gloomy and guilt-ridden.
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When he reached the age of fourteen, Jean-Claude Colin, accompanied by his elder brother Pierre, entered the minor seminary of Saint-Jodard, a kind of secondary school for boys preparing for priesthood.
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Jean-Claude Colin's hopes were for a ministry as a priest where he could live a life of quiet prayer.
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Jean-Claude Colin was transferred to continue his secondary studies in similar institutions at Alix, and finally at Verrieres, where he was a contemporary of Marcellin Champagnat and John Vianney.
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However, For the moment, till that happened, as assistant priest at Cerdon, Jean-Claude Colin spoke to his brother of his version of a future the Society of Mary, gaining Pierre's eager adhesion.
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Jean-Claude Colin was asked to take over the College of Belley as Principal and when Rome approved the Society of Mary in 1836 he was elected as its first Superior General.
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In 1817 the Jean-Claude Colin brothers invited two young women to come to Cerdon to begin the Sisters of the Congregation of Mary.
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In 1854 Jean-Claude Colin resigned the office of superior general and retired to Notre-Dame-de-la-Neyliere, where he spent the last twenty years of his life revising and completing the Constitutions.
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Jean-Claude Colin died at La Neyliere two years later on 15 November 1875.
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The Musee Jean-Claude Colin is a private museum in Saint-Bonnet-le-Troncy presenting a retrospective of the life of Colin.