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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

Themes
Leaflets on various themes related to the spirit of Jean-Claude Colin...

Fr Colin's Ten Commandments for Missioners     |     Saintly Educator     |    Marist Way     |     Jean Coste speaks to Fr Colin     |     'The Society of Mary has begun' (Oct 29 anniversary)     |     Etienne Déclas, Apostle of the Bugey 
Themes 10 Cdts 1
'Fr Colin's Ten Commandments for Missioners'
Compiled by Fr Craig Larkin SM

 

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 Educator  
'Jean-Claude Colin: Saintly Educator for His Times and Ours'
Fr Leon M Oszalmowski SM

 

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Marist Way EN 1 cover  
The Marist Way
Twelve faces of the Marist spirit
 
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Coste to Colin  
Jean Coste speaks to Fr Colin
Marist historian's testimony
 
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 Oct 29 DL
'The Society of Mary has begun'
Oct 29, 1824, and the beginnings of the first Marist missions

 

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Declas DL 1
Etienne Declas
Apostle of the Bugey
 
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