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Management of documents

The documental collections of the Archives

The main collections of documents which comprise the basis of the Archives are as follows:

 Marcellin Champagnat Collection which constitutes the solid base of the archives since the beginning of their formation. The sections and sub-sections have been changed as studies have required.

General history of the Institute Collection, with all the attempts and realizations carried through to completion from Br. Avit (Henri Bilon) down to our own days. Without making many conclusions about the same, we preserve the sources and origins, the compositions available through the works of the brothers and the works of research, (Marist Notebooks ...)

General Administration Collection, the works depending on the Administration and the legislation produced in the course of the almost two hundred years of history.
The main sections are:
- The Circulars of the Superior Generals, the personal writings of each of them and their Councillors.
-The General Chapters and the General Conferences.
-The decisions of the General Councils.
 The publications in the Bulletin of the Institute and other reviews of the Administration constitute a great collection rich in data and doctrine, hardly explored or studied.

External relations Collection. From almost the beginning of the life of the Institute the practice has been maintained of preserving the administrative documents. It is easy to understand that this provides a source for comparing data and historical statements.

Personal documentation Collection. Comprises not only the biographies of the brothers but their personal records (37.000), to which can be added the hundreds of biographies of brothers deposited in the library adjunct of the Archives.

 Provinces of the Institute Collection
In three successive arrangements, the Archives holds the collections constituting the richest and most extensive and most consulted and researched; they are the documents produced by the Administrative Units in their successive divisions, structuring and restructuring. The fourteen sub-section divisions indicate the wealth of the variety of documents they contain.

The Goods and Finances Collection is one of the most abundant and least consulted collections of documents, but it preserves the silent history of the numbers and works of the Institute.

The graphic document Collection relating to the provinces, works and persons, is each year the object of greater consultation and research of the reality and the evolution of the works of the Institute. This collection constitutes the fundamental base of the Archive’s photographic library.

 The Library of the Archives

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Dictionaries
Atlases
Índexes

1. HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE ORIGINS 
Political History
History of Education
Civil History
Religious History

2. RESEARCH INTO THE ORIGINS
Scholarly work of research
History of life and spirituality of Champagnat
François
Louis-Marie
Marist Origins
Society of Mary
Marist Fathers
Marist Sisters
Marist Missionary Sisters

3. RESEARCH INTO THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE INSTITUTE 
Life of the Brothers
Life of the martyrs,
Life of the saints,
Life of the blessed
History of the works of the provinces

4. WORKS OF DIFFUSION
Literary biographies
Edifying biographies
Pious literature
Marist education
Marist pedagogy

5. WORKS OF OTHER CONGREGATIONS
Clercs of Saint Viateur
De la Salle Brothers
Marianists
Jesuits
La Mennais Brothers
Religious of St Vincent de Paule
Benedictines
Ursulines

Periodicals Library

Reviews of Marist research

1. Marist Notebooks
2.  Other reviews of Marist studies

Reviews circulated by the General Administration

1. Bulletin of the l’Institute
2. FMS Message
3. Echos
4. Circulars of the Superiors
5. Publications on the Web

Provincial reviews

Other reviews for circulation

Exstudents and Marist Family

General Chapters

Photos

This collection in the Archives may be very rich in loan material, but is dependent on data processes to allow computer access to users on the various continents.

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