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: steps in the chapel of La Capucinière

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