Father John Lee of the Marist Fathers administered extreme unction, and Griffith expired as the priest recited the concluding prayer.

* Saint Marcellin Champagnat ( 1789 – 1840 ), a Catholic priest and founding members of the Society of Mary ( Marist Fathers ) who founded the Marist Brothers and was canonised in 1999.

The Marist Brothers, or Little Brothers of Mary, are a Catholic religious institute of brothers and affiliated lay people, founded in France, at La Valla-en-Gier near Lyon in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest of the Society of Mary ( Marist Fathers ).

Champagnat was ordained as a priest in 1816, and was part of a group led by Jean-Claude Colin which founded the Society of Mary, also called the Marist Fathers and Brothers, a separate religious congregation to the Brothers Marcellin founded later.

Named after the French priest Marcellin Champagnat, the founder of the Marist Brothers, Marcellin is the red house of Chanel College.

The Marist Brothers are a Catholic society founded in France by Saint Marcellin Champagnat in 1816, focused on educational work throughout the world.

They were named for Brother Leo Brouiletter ( Provincial of the Marist Brothers, 1921 – 1930 ) and Saint Marcellin Champagnat respectively.

Saint Marcellin Champagnat, founder of the Marist Brothers

Champagnat had rented for them in LaValla and which became the first Marist Brothers community.

This harkens back to a Marist legend about Champagnat.

The school is staffed by the Marist Brothers, founded by Saint Marcellin Champagnat

Inorder to make the Marist Brothers Champagnat needed a central hub to work and minister from so he baught a house in 1817 and recruited more brothers.

It was largely staffed by sisters, brothers and priests of religious institutes, such as the Christian Brothers ( who had returned to Australia in 1868 ); the Sisters of Mercy ( who had arrived in Perth in 1846 ); Marist Brothers, who came from France in 1872 and the Sisters of St Joseph, founded in Australia by Mary MacKillop and Fr Julian Tenison Woods in 1867.

By 1929, the training center at the Hermitage had evolved into the Marist Normal Training School, offering college-level courses under the auspices of Fordham University.

Marist also had 27 student athletes selected to the PFL's Academic Honor Roll.

Over their nearly 200 year history, Marist Brothers have had ministries in over 100 different nations.

Marist Brothers are noted for the impact they have had on Catholic education in the Oceania region.

Archbishop Thomas Edmund Molloy, the Ordinary of the Diocese of Brooklyn, offered the Marist Brothers a site he had purchased in central Queens County.

The Marist Brothers had complained to the Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran about their working and living conditions.

The Cardinal then granted to the Christian Brothers the requests that the Marist Brothers had been denied.

The college campus and grounds are formerly a Marist Fathers Seminary which was dedicated to and at one time had held relics of Saint Peter Chanel.

In 2008 the tigers had nearly a perfect season losing only to Marist School 38-0.

In the 1850s it was sold to the Marist Fathers, a French group who had an influence on the early development of Hunters Hill.

They received a particular mandate to follow the Marist Fathers to the Pacific and administer to the new colonies of the Pacific nations and Australia.

Marist is an adjectival noun, the word is derived from the name Mary-in particular Mary the Mother of Jesus Christ.

The third of four children, Pujol was sent at age seven to the Valldemia boarding school run by the Marist Brothers in Mataró, twenty miles from Barcelona and remained there for the next four years.

In February 2008, Marist College announced that it would join the PFL for the 2009 season, after the MAAC stopped sponsoring football.

* Celtic Football Club is founded by members of the Marist Order, a teaching institute, as a way of raising money for a poor children ’ s charity.

In 2008, Parramatta Marist High School a secondary Catholic school in Australia employed the methods of PBL in their teaching for year 9 and 10 boys.

* Fratres Maristae a Scolis, post-nominal letters for the catholic religious order of the Marist Brothers

Such projects were designed to effect an increased political awareness of the plight of sharecroppers, migrants, and the American proletariat " yet were nevertheless part of a " documentary trend " infused with " intense regionalism and celebration of the working class " with a turn away from European style, seeing " stylistic experimentation and a cosmopolitan imagination as socially-irresponsible indulgences not to be entertained in such times of national crisis " and embracing socially relevant facts and " national realism ," noted Mark Krasovic writing for the New Deal Network, a project of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in collaboration with Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Marist College, and IBM, adding,

The following conferences and institutions received automatic qualification for the 2009 Championships, which were played on May 8 – 10: Collegiate Water Polo Association, Michigan ; Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Marist ; Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, USC ; Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Cal Lutheran ; and Western Water Polo Association, Loyola Marymount.

Catholic Secondary schools for Māori were established: St Joseph's Māori Girls ' College, Napier ( 1867 ) by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions ; Hato Petera College, Takapuna ( 1928 ) by the Mill Hill Fathers ( later staffed by the Marist Brothers who arrived in New Zealand in 1876 ); and, in 1948, Hato Paora College was opened by the Marist Fathers.

The iconic Futuna Chapel was built as a Wellington retreat center for the Marist order in 1961.

The charter for the Marist Normal Training School was obtained by Brother Leo Brouilette.

It was named for Monsignor J. F. Sheahan ( pastor of St. Peter's Church, Poughkeepsie ) without whom the Marist Brothers might not have been able to purchase the Bech Estate that now comprises the entire south campus area.

Benoit House and Gregory House were erected in 1968 as a residence for the Marist Brothers living on campus.

Benoit House honored the memory of Brother Francis Xavier Benoit who taught at Marist for nineteen years, while serving also as Director of Construction for the Marist Brothers.

Habitat for Humanity has a very active Marist College Chapter in which students volunteer for local and national fundraising, building and education projects.

Some of the club's goals are to host pre-game events, coordinate bus trips to high-profile away games and raise the student attendance for all Marist Athletics events.

In 2011 for the 11th straight year Marist led the MAAC with 237 selections to the conference's Academic Honor Roll.