Marcellin Champagnat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marcellin Champagnat

Date of Birth: 20-May-1789

Place of Birth: Marlhes, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 06-Jun-1840

Profession: Catholic priest

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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.
His feast day is 6 June, his death anniversary. 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.