I cannot see a child without wanting to let him know how much Jesus Christ has loved him and how much he should, in return, love the divine Savior.
The young are living in the most profound ignorance and are given to the most alarming dissipation.
A seventeen-year old boy, Jean-Baptiste Montagne, lay dying. The lad was entirely ignorant of matters of faith. Marcellin instructed him, heard his confession, and prepared him for death.
Marcellin’s encounter with this adolescent boy transformed him. Jean-Baptiste’s lack of knowledge about Jesus convinced the young priest that God was calling him to found a congregation of brothers to evangelize the young, particularly those most neglected.
Marcellin decided to put his plan into action by asking Jean-Marie Granjon to become the first member of his community of teaching brothers.
The first recruit Jean-Marie, to be known later as Brother Jean-Marie, accepted the young priest’s invitation on October 28th, 1816; he was eager to give himself to the work.
Jean-Claude Audras turned out to be the third recruit for the Little Brothers, his path to the Institute an unlikely one. . He later took the name Brother Laurent.
Marcellin taught his charges to read, and gave them the tools they would need to teach children. He also showed them how to pray and to make nails.
The community begins to grow Jean-Baptiste Audras, later Brother Louis, was onlyfourteen and a half when he asked to join the De La Salle Brothers at SaintChamond.
.A school for boys and girls was started in the brothers’ house under the direction of Maisonneuve. This place became a happy place with a inclusive atmosphere and relationship with one another. Thus, the Marist community had widely developed.
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