Norandina Province

The Norandina Province, consisting of our brothers in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, has its formation center, the Marist Postulant House of Our Lady of the Hermitage, in Manizales, Colombia.  There, with great joy, we have celebrated the arrival of a new group of postulants. The five young men are Duberney Giraldo, Javier Mora, Juan Pablo Oviedo, Héctor Fabio Tusarma and Anderson Ramírez, coming from the Districts of Quindío and Santander.

Duberney, Javier, Juan Pablo and Héctor Fabio have come to us thanks to the vocation work that Brothers Nelson Cardona, Julián Muñoz and Carlos Andrés Obando, assisted by our teachers Jair, Nabor y José Miguel, are doing in the city of Armenia. Anderson, having studied under the direction of Brother Martín Ordúz at our Aspirancy House in the city of Pasto, hails from Bucaramanga.

These newcomers join our three second-year postulants, Juan Pablo Muñoz, Jobany Ordóñez y Juan David Páez. Together they are making up a very congenial group that we hope will bless us with good and holy Marist brothers, constantly deepening their awareness and appreciation of God’s love in their lives and bringing that same love to very many children and young people, just like Marcellin and our first brothers did.

Manizales (Caldas), Colombia, February 2, 2011