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Vincentian Marian Youth (YMV or JMV)
Public Group active 5 months, 3 weeks agoThe Association of the Children of Mary Immaculate, known today as “Vincentian Marian Youth Movement” has a universal reach.
Born in the midst of the large Family of St. Vincent de Paul, its history is linked to the evolution of the Company of the Daughters of Charity and the Priests of the Congregation of the Mission (”Paules”, “Lazaristes” or Vincentian Fathers), in their task of Evangelization throughout the entire world.
The Association is also called by other names, depending on different countries:
JEUNESSE MARIALE (Mauritius), ASSOCIATION OF VINCENTIAN LOUISIAN FAMILY (Indonesia)…
Biblical experience tells us that each time God calls, He asks for a response from the person and He sends that person to fulfill a mission. Recall Samuel, Jeremiah, Mary…
Zoé hears the call in her native village, Fain- les- Moutiers, and her response to God will be to enter the Company of the Daughters of Charity in Paris as a Postulant in 1829, and afterwards the Seminary at the Motherhouse, in April of 1830.
We know the mission God confided to Catherine, by way of Mary, through the apparitions of the Immaculate Virgin.
In this historic event we have the Commencement of the Marian Association.
This is the how Catherine explained this mission to her Director, Father Aladel, in her communication with him:
“The Blessed Virgin wishes to give you a mission …You will be the founder and director of a Confraternity of Children of Mary”.
Another message given by the Blessed Virgin was that a medal should be made: the Miraculous Medal, which would be the insignia of the Association.
The integral message of the various Marian apparitions will have repercussions in her life and in the development and consolidation of the nascent group throughout its history.
The first Children of Mary Association was organized into groups in different regions of France. The first fifteen groups were formed between 1835 to 1847.
The first Child of Mary was Benigne Hairon and, like so many others, she carne from the boarding school run by the Daughters of Charity. The first meetings of the Children of Mary were called “Marian Cenacles”.
The Superior General, Father Etiene, obtained Pontifical Approbation from Pope Pius IX on June 20, 1847.
In 1850, this approbation was extended to the male branch. The Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission could now establish “the pious Society under the title of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, in all the houses of the congregation throughout the world.”
The support given by the Superiors General and the encouragement, admiration and benediction bestowed by the sovereign Pontiffs contributed to the general expansion of the Association.
From 1848 to 1870, expansion, outside of France, took place in several countries of Europe and others continents: in Asia, the Philippines, Lebanon; in Africa, Egypt; and several South American countries. There were 338 fully functioning Centers.
On September 19, 1876, Pope Pius IX signed a Papal Brief permitting young people who were not students of the schools of the Daughters of Charity to belong to the Association.
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Guilherme Azevedo created the group
Vincentian Marian Youth (YMV or JMV) 5 months, 3 weeks ago
