4. "A tree with several branches"

The Society of Mary is a "tree with several branches". It was originally envisaged as a multi-branched congregation, a vast enterprise embracing all kinds of people: lay people and religious, brothers, sisters and priests, all working for the same goal. It was an image which captured the imagination of the first Marists.



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