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The village of Cerdon, in the northern Bugey mountains
Detail: Official icon of Jean-Claude Colin, with Blessed Virgin and Child
Barbery: Cross on the site of the Colin home
Forest of Barbery: hiding place for priests during Revolutionaries' raids - and of quiet for the young Jean-Claude
St Bonnet-le-Troncy, boyhood home of Jean-Claude Colin
River Loire, which flows past the minor seminary of St Jodard
Lyon, Fourvière: ancient chapel of the Blessed Virgin and Basilica
Fourvière: sanctuary of the ancient chapel of the Blessed Virgin.
Cerdon: Fr Colin's first appointment as assistant to his brother, Pierre.
Cerdon: statue in the church of St John the Baptist
Presbytery at Cerdon: home for the first nine years of Jean-Claude's priestly life.
Belley: Minor seminary high school where pioneer Bugey missioners lived
Bugey mountains: village of Lacoux
Bugey mountains: church at Innimont
Bugey mountains: church at Innimont
Bugey mountains: statue at Arandas
Rome: The Quirinale, residence of the Popes at the time of Fr Colin's first visits
Rome: Odescalchi Palace, from the church of the Apostles where Fr Colin stayed in 1833
Belley: Chapel of La Capucinière, first Marist professions, 1836
Lyon, Puylata: General House of the Society of Mary from 1838
Rochefort du Gard: one of the shrines undertaken by Fr Colin and the Marists
Toulon, La Seyne: One of the first high schools established by the Marist Fathers
Marcellange: established by Fr Colin as a place of retreat for his missioners
Trappist monastery at Aiguebelle: Fr Colin would make private retreats here
La Neylière: planned by Fr Colin to be a place of silence and retreat
La Neylière: book belonging to Fr Colin
La Neylière: Fr Colin's study
La Neylière: winter sunset, from the room of Fr Colin
La Neylière: bedroom of Fr Colin
La Neylière: crucifix laid in the hands of Fr Colin upon his death
La Neylière: resting place of Fr Colin

 

Contemporary Writings 

 A guide to the writings of Jean-Claude Colin
and to what has been written in recent times by others about him and his Cause for Beatification.
Also Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Constitution, Divinus Perfectionis Magister, updating Vatican protocols for the processes of Beatification and Canonisation.
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In recent decades much work has been done to assemble the writings and spoken words of Jean-Claude Colin as well as the writings of those who knew him personally and whose correspondence has been researched and documented.  
Contemporary Marist authors have drawn on these resources to offer further insights into the life and spirit of Fr Colin.
Access to these writings is easily available through the Marist publication, 'Forum Novum', originally in print form and now online on the Society of Mary's website.

 

 Why Beatify Jean-Claude Colin?

 Alois Greiler SM

 A presentation at the Marist Symposium 2023, Rome, and available in Sources & Streams. FMS, July 2024, p. 125-148.

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0826 Apost Constn

Apostolic Constitution
Divinus Perfectionis Magister

Current Vatican protocols for the processes of Beatification and Canonisation (Pope John Paul II, 1983)

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The writings of Jean-Claude Colin

 
Alois Greiler SM

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Literature about the Cause of Jean-Claude Colin

 
Literature on the Cause of Father Colin
Alois Greiler SM – Ron Nissen SM 

*Chronology of the Cause (1875-2025)Ron Nissen SM
*Reluctant Saint? The Cause for Beatification of Marist Founder, Fr. Jean-Claude Colin*
Ron Nissen SM

See also: History of the Cause on this website

 

Grace in Jean-Claude Colin: a pastoral perspective relevant today?

 

Thomas Ryan SM

 

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The Value of the Person:

Jean-Claude Colin in Conversation

 Thomas Ryan SM

 

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Holy Spirit JCC front page

The Holy Spirit and Jean-Claude Colin: The Person, The Group and The Church

 

Thomas Ryan SM

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Index of literature in 'Forum Novum'

 (links currently inoperative,  0426)

Alois Greiler SM – Anthony Kennedy SM Introduction 
Table of all volumes and their subheadings 
Index of authors in alphabetical order

Also at Forum Novum Vol 21.2 - Dec 2019