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Marie Françoise Perroton

Part 2 of 2 175 years ago, at the age of 49, Marie Françoise Perroton set out from Lyon to follow a missionary call to the Pacific. After a voyage of eleven months the ship finally arrived in Wallis. Reception in Wallis They were two days on board at Wallis before a suitable wind enabled […]

Marie Françoise Perroton

Part 1 of 2 175 years after Marie Françoise Perroton set out from France to be a missionary in the Pacific, the Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary are celebrating this pioneer who started something which became so much greater than herself. Are you considering a career change? And are you 49? How about […]

SMSM — Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary

Collaborators in Continuing the Mission of Mary in the Church (1) In 2016, it was 200 years since the twelve Marist aspirants climbed the hill to the shrine of Our Lady of Fourvière. There they pledged to found a new Society bearing the name of Mary and living her spirit. The seeds of the branch of the […]