Saint Marcellin Champagnat - Miraflores, Lima, Peru
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The bronze bust of St. Marcellin Champagnat is located in Champagnat Park, part of the Malecon de Miraflores, a district of Lima, Peru.
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Location: Peru
Date Posted: 11/17/2019
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The Malecon is a two-mile strip of parks, gardens and green space on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Miraflores.
Saint Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat (20 May 1789 – 6 June 1840) was born in Le Rosey, village of Marlhes, near St. Etienne (Loire), France. He was the founder of the Marist Brothers, a religious congregation of brothers in the Catholic Church devoted to Mary and dedicated to education.
Marcellin was ordained as a priest on the 22nd of July 1816, and was part of a group led by Jean-Claude Colin, who founded the Society of Mary, a separate religious congregation to the Marist Brothers teaching order Marcellin founded later. Marcellin was born in the year of the storming of the Bastille, the start of the French Revolution. The religious, political, economic and social unrest of the times he lived influenced his priorities and life path.
Marcellin Champagnat was declared Venerable in 1920 by Pope Benedict XV, beatified by Pope Pius XII on 29 May 1955, and canonised by Pope John Paul II on 18 April 1999. His feast day is observed in the Catholic Church on 6 June, his death anniversary.
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