We continue his educational work

29. During the fifty-one years of his life, Marcellin labored to the point of exhaustion to found a family of religious educators. He experienced the Cross in his life, with countless disappointments, difficulties and setbacks but his hope and vision remained strong. When he died on 6 June 1840, this family numbered 290 Brothers in 48 elementary schools.

30. Brother François and the first Brothers took up Marcellin’s project with enthusiasm. In a similar spirit of faith and apostolic zeal, their successors have taken it to the five continents. As contemporary Marist educators, we share and continue Marcellin’s dream of transforming the lives and situation of young people, particularly the least favoured, through offering them an integral education, both human and spiritual, based on a personal love for each one.