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Sometimes when the wind changes direction, fire rises more fiercely from ashes than from its initial kindling. The Church of France lay dismembered and dispirited in the ashes of the French Revolution. But a fire would arise in the Church of France, a fire called the Family of Mary, kindled by a new wind and a new direction: the vision and energies of William Joseph Chaminade and Adele de Batz de Trenquelleon. The Church of France would arise from its ashes, and a new vision of Church would sweep southern France: the multiplication of communities of faith.

All true Christian inspiration calls a new historical people to understand the Gospel for their time and their place. Such was the inspiration of the Family of Mary. Chaminade and de Trenquelleon called each baptized person to realize that their baptism made them apostles. As such they were to bring the Gospel to each person they met. They were not to do this alone, but to go forth from a community, a community of prayer and a community of mission. And as the first Christian community gathered around the person of Mary, mother of Jesus, it would be to hear that Chaminade and de Trenquelleon would confide the formation and nurturing of these communities of faith. As Mary had formed Jesus, she would now form new apostles to live the Gospel in a new age.

Largely unaware of each other's work at the beginning, both Founders worked at forming communities with this fundamental inspiration. Working independently and then joining forces they formed communities called sodalities. These communities included both sexes, married and single persons, religious, diocesan clergy, and all classes of people. These were the faith communities that would become the rebuilding of the French church.

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