Marist Brothers’ Primary School in Mulivai, Samoa will be celebrating its 125th anniversary from 24 August to 1 September 2013. The anniversary aims to bring the Marist fraternity together, with members travelling from overseas. The Marist Brothers’ Old Pupils’ Association will also use some of the activities during the anniversary to raise funds to finance Read more
Brother Dennis of the Little Brothers of Mary, as they were originally known, was buried at a cemetery near Melbourne in March, 1992. His two families — the one he grew up with, and the clergy that he made his adult life with — were both present, and separate. The coffin lowered, the mourners were Read more
Members of the Marist family along with representatives of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the Friends of the Mount Street Cemetery joined the Archbishop of Wellington, John Dew, at the Mount Street Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand on Sunday 17 February to unveil a memorial which commemorates two early French Marist missionaries who died at sea. Read more
The Marist Brothers’ Old Pupils’ Association in Samoa is preparing to celebrate the 125 years since the establishment of the Marist Brother in Samoa. A series of events has been planned that will culminate in the 125th celebration in August 2013. Already the Marist Brothers have leased the old school library to the Association for them to Read more
Last Tuesday Marist Brothers High School, the first multi-racial school in Fiji, marked its 75th anniversary celebration with a march from Marist Suva Street to Flagstaff. Old boys from the US, Australia and New Zealand also gathered in numbers to mark one of the auspicious occasions for the school, with old scholars sharing their experience Read more
Marist Brothers’ High School launched its Diamond Jubilee celebrations with a special mass at the school’s Lambert Hall in Suva on Friday 20 April. Marist Brothers’ High School opened its doors at its initial location in Toorak, Suva, way back in 1937 before moving to its current site, Flagstaff, a decade later. Originally known as Read more
Children with disabilities now have access to vocational education at the Marist Champagnat Institute. A statement from the Australian High Commission said the Suva-based secondary school was the only one in Fiji that specialised in teaching vocational and mainstream curriculum to children with disabilities. “The Marist Champagnat Institute is different from other special education schools Read more
The Pacific Assembly of the New Zealand Marist Brothers Province was held recently in Suva at the Champagnat Institute 38 people including 12 Lay Marists attended from the contributing nations of Fiji, Samoa and Kiribati. This was the first time that lay people were there in numbers and they did influence some thinking within the Assembly. Read more