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A Marist Way of Living The Beginnings of the Society of Mary The Society of Mary began in the Chapel of Our Lady at Fourvière in Lyon, on 23 July 1816 where twelve seminarians, aged between 20 and 34, climbed the steep steps to the top of the Fourvière hill, and dedicated themselves to Mary. They promised to begin a new religious order in the Church; a group called "Mary-ists" whose work in the Church would resemble that of the Jesuits, but whose approach or style would be unlike anything that existed in the Church at that time.
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