23 July marks a significant date in our shared Marist history: Fourvière Day. On this day in 1816, Marcellin Champagnat was among twelve aspiring Marists who climbed the 800 steps to the chapel of Our Lady of Fourvière, overlooking Lyon. There they pledged themselves to the foundation of a new religious movement, the Mary-ists, whose life and ministry would be shaped by Mary’s way of living the Gospel. This moment became the foundation of the Society of Mary, which would tak