Jean-Claude Colin

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Jean-Claude Colin was born in France on the 7th of August, 1790 and attended the major seminary at Lyon. He was ordained as a priest of the diocese, but from his seminary days worked with a group of fellow seminarians to begin the Society of Mary (Marists). He worked at the Parish of Cerdon where his brother Pierre Colin was the parish priest. While there he met up with Jean Marie Chavoin who joined with him in the Marist Project. He preached missions in the Bugey, a country region, with others priests who wanted to be Marists. He was asked to take over the College of Belley as Principal and when Rome approved the Society of Mary he was elected as its first Superior General. The Society of Mary was founded to serve the Church in the most urgent, varied and significant tasks. Jean-Claude Colin died on the 28th of February, 1875.