We Marist brothers are religious consecrated to God, and we follow Jesus in the way that Mary did. We live in community and dedicate ourselves in a special way to the education of children and young people, with a preference for those who are the most neglected.
St. Marcellin Champagnat, a priest from France, founded the Congregation of the Marist Teaching Brothers in 1817.
Worldwide, there are more than 4300 of us working in 76 countries on 5 continents. We directly share our mission and spirituality with more than 40,000 laypeople, and together we are educating close to 500,000 children and young people.