Notre-Dame de l’Hermitage: 200 years
05-19-2024 | 08-15-2025
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The Marist Institute celebrates the Bicentenary of the construction and inauguration of its motherhouse – Notre-Dame de l’Hermitage – and champagnat.org offers here documents, reports, photos and a series of resources that can help you to live this celebration.
“The celebration of the Bicentenary of the mother house of the Institute is a unique opportunity to appreciate with gratitude the gift of the Marist charism that has been given to us and of which we are beneficiaries and responsible for continuing the mission in favor of children and young people, particularly the most vulnerable” (Br. Ernesto Sánchez, Superior General – March 2024).
Prayer
Thanksgiving for the bicentenary of the house of the Notre-Dame de l’Hermitage
Rafael Ferreira, fms
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Music: Hermitage, wellspring of Life
WAV: English | Español | Français | Português | Catalan | Tagalo | Malgache | Instrumental | Multi
Video: English | Español | Français | Português | Catalan | Malgache | Instrumental | Multi
Lettre et musique – PDF: English | Español | Français | PortuguĂŞs | Catalan | Tagalo | Malgache
Marist Epic Story
La Valla, house of light – L’Hermitage, source of Life
Maurice Goutagny, fms
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Videos
- July 2024: La Valla, house of Light – L’Hermitage, source of Life
- 13 May 2024: bicentennary’s openning mass
- 5 March 2024: celebration during the meeting with the Provincials
Tour Virtual – Memorial Marista (Brasil Centro-Sul)
Publications
- 2025: Illustrated History of Notre Dame de l ’Hermitage – St. Chamond, Loire, France 1824-2016
Br. Barry Lamb - 1925: Monographie de N. D. de L’Hermitage à l’occasion du Centenaire de sa Fondation (1825-1925)
As soon as the land was purchased, on May 13, 1824, on the banks of the River Gier, near Saint-Chamond, Father Champagnat and the first brothers began building the Institute’s motherhouse. The foundation stone was blessed by Bishop Cholleton, Vicar General of the Diocese of Lyon. The house was completed the following year, in 1825. Since then, and having been used for various purposes, it has always remained a reference point for Marist life.
The community of Notre-Dame de l’Hermitage opened the Bicentenary Year on Pentecost Sunday, May 19, 2024, with a solemn Eucharist presided over by the Bishop of Saint-Etienne, Monsignor Sylvain Bataille, and attended by a good number of Brothers, lay Marists and friends of the house. Over the following months, various events have marked this jubilee. It will close on August 15, 2025, the Assumption of Mary and the patronal feast of the Institute, recalling the 200th anniversary of the blessing of the house’s first chapel.
