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9 unusual facts about Marist Brothers


Andrew Jeptha

He was the son of a Cape Town carpenter and was educated at the Marist Brothers School in Hope Street, Capetown.

Carl Doherty

In 2002 he competed in the New Zealand Marist Brothers Spillane rugby union tournament for the North Harbour side and was named in the team of the tournament.

Claude Vivier

From the age of thirteen, he attended boarding schools run by the Marist Brothers, a religious order that prepared young boys for a vocation in the priesthood.

Club Manuel Belgrano

In 1955 the Marist Brothers College Manuel Belgrano registered a rugby team to participate in the tournaments organized by the Unión Argentina de Rugby, under the name of "Los Tábanos" ("The Horseflies").

Cryptolaemus montrouzieri

Étienne Mulsant described C. montrouzieri, naming the new species after a Marist brother and missionary, Abbe Montrouzier, who wrote an "Insect Fauna of Woodlark Island".

Eugenio Garza Sada

Garza’s upbringing with was religious and conservative, initially attending Marist schools.

Norman Williams

He attended St Joseph's Convent School and then the Catholic College run by the Marist Brothers in Sale, Victoria.

Society of Mary

Marist Brothers, a Catholic religious congregation of brothers with affiliated lay people founded in France, at La Valla near Lyon in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest of the Society of Mary.

The John Berne School

The John Berne School is owned and operated by the Marist Brothers, an order founded in France during the early 19th century by St Marcellin Champagnat.


Leonidoff Field

It began life around the same time as the founder of the Marist Brothers, Saint Marcellin Champagnat, and was therefore in existence 80 years before the college was established.

Marist College Emerald

Sunflowers represent the Shire of Emerald and the stylized "A & M" is the international symbol of the Congregation of the Marist Brothers.

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

With campuses in the Brazilian cities of Porto Alegre and Viamão, it is the largest private university of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and the first university founded by the Catholic religious institute of the Marist Brothers.

William George McCloskey

He introduced many religious orders into the diocese: the Passionists, the Benedictines, the Fathers of the Resurrection, the Sisters of Mercy, the Little Sisters of the Poor, the Franciscan Sisters, and the Brothers of Mary.


see also

Marist Brothers Secondary School Dete, Zimbabwe

Marist Brothers Secondary School (MBSS), otherwise referred to as 'Marist Dete' is an elite co-educational (mixed) boarding secondary school located in Dete, in the Hwange district of Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland North Province province.

Marist Brothers Secondary School Dete was opened in 1972, as a transfer from St. Mary’s Secondary School in Lukosi, Hwange.

Philip Esler

Born in Sydney, Australia on 27 August 1952, Esler completed secondary schooling at the then named Marist Brothers High School in the Sydney suburb of Eastwood.

Southland Boys' High School

Southland Boys' High School (SBHS) is an all-boys school in Invercargill, New Zealand, and has been the only one in the city since Marist Brothers was merged with St Catherines to form Verdon College in 1982.

St. Mary's High School, Peshawar

In 1970, the Marist Brothers took over the administration of St. Mary's from the Mill Hill Fathers.

Villa Marista

In addition to the school in Havana the Marist Brothers also had another school in the city of Cienfuegos.