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Society of Mary (Marists) The Society of Mary ( la, Societas Mariae) abbreviated SM, commonly known as the Marist Fathers, is a men's Roman Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right. It was founded by Jean-Claude Colin and a group of seminarians in L ...
, a Catholic religious congregation of priests and brothers, founded in 1816 at Lyon, France, by Father Jean-Claude Colin and others. * Marist Brothers, a Catholic religious congregation of brothers with affiliated lay people founded in France, at La Valla near Lyon in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest of the Society of Mary. Though the two congregations have common origins they are not the same. *
Society of Mary (Marianists) The Society of Mary ( la, Societas Mariae) abbreviated SM is a clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men (brothers and priests) commonly called the Marianists or Marianist Brothers and Priests. Its members add the nominal ...
, a Catholic religious congregation of brothers and priests, founded in 1817 at Bordeaux, France, by the Blessed William Joseph Chaminade. * Society of Mary (Anglican), an Anglican society founded in 1931 in Britain, by the union of its parent societies, the ''Confraternity of Our Lady'' (founded in 1880) and the ''League of Our Lady'' (founded in 1902) {{disambig