Father William Joseph Chaminade (1761-1850), Founder of the Society of Mary (1817) and the Daughters of Mary Immaculate (1816), Beatified September 3, 2000.

"Christ has ordained all concerns of religion that Mary participated and cooperated in all of them."

"We do not go to Mary as our God, but we go to God through Mary, as faith tells us He came to us through her."

W. J. Chaminade in Vignettes and Cameos

From the Marianist Tradition


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