| September Observances September 8: First Community of Marist Sisters On this date in 1823, in the town of Cerdon, the community of three women, Jeanne-Marie Chavoin, Marie Jotillon, and Marie Gardet, formed the first community of what would become the congregation of the Marist Sisters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 12: Holy Name of Mary Patronal feast of the Society of Mary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 24: First Marist Vows and Election of the first Superior General Anniversary of the day in 1836 on which the first group of twenty Marist priests took vows and elected Jean-Claude Colin their first Superior General. |