France

Welcome to the Sector of France !

	Today, in France, we are 35 Sisters living in five communities at Saint-Prix (near Paris), Lyon , Belley and Toulon.
	We have a missionary attitude to life : retirement or active life, health or sickness, leisure time or work, prayer or service. We try to be attentive to all forms of physical, intellectual, spiritual, moral or social distress, in parishes, social insertion, educational institutions, retirement homes ...
As far as possible, we try to answer the needs and to promote the rights of those who suffer, so as to build a more fraternal and just world. We usually do this through the church and associated networks. In the works founded by the Marist Sisters, the Laity and the Sisters work with the same spirit.
	Our mission here in France is in solidarity with our Sisters in other countries and with all those who work elsewhere in the world, there where people are especially hurt or in difficulty. *For further information, please contact* Sector Leader of France *or see the Marist French site (in French)* maristes-france.org

	In Belley, the old house of "Bon Repos" has been a Marist meeting place from the beginning : St Peter Chanel went to say farewell before leaving for Oceania in 1836. St Marcellin Champagnat visited the postulants he had sent to the Sisters. The first lay Marists from Lyon came to make a retreat...
	Today, international groups come on pilgrimage or for renewal periods to the "Centre Jeanne-Marie Chavoin" . A museum holds a display of panels showing the development of the Congregation. There are also some items belonging to Jeanne-Marie Chavoin. Come and visit us !