18 April 1999: Saint Marcellin Champagnat “A heart that knows no bounds”

Twenty-one years ago, San Marcellin Champagnat was canonized in the Vatican. “Dear young people who have come to express your devotion to the spirit of education given by Fr Champagnat, I encourage you to remain faithful in the path to which you are called by God”, Pope John Paul II said, in his welcoming speech to the pilgrims of different parts of the world, assembling in Rome for the canonization.

The Marist family experienced the canonization as a special occasion, under the slogan “A heart that knows no bounds”.

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