Jeanne marie chavoin biography for kids

Jeanne-Marie Chavoin (29 August 1786 – 30 June 1858) and Jean-Claude Colin together founded the Marist Sisters, a Catholicreligious institute of women.

Jeanne-Marie was born in the village of Coutouvre, France.

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She met Fr Pierre Colin when he was parish priest at Coutouvre. She later joined Jean Claude Colin at Cerdon where they were both serving as priests. Together they worked on the beginning of the Marist Sisters. The Marist Organization was purely based on women and their relationship to God.

The Marist legacy has successfully opened many schools across the globe.

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Life

Jeanne-Marie Chavoin was born in the small village of Coutouvre in France on the 29th of August 1786. Chavoin was considered sinful because she was conceived by her 19 and 20 year old parents 6 months before their marriage.

She had two sisters Marie and Claudine-marie. Sadly Marie died at the age of one.^[1][2]

Jeanne-Marie had very little education a