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Marist

 
Dictionary: Mar·ist   (mâr'ĭst, măr'-) pronunciation
n.
  1. A member of the Society of Mary, a congregation of Roman Catholic missionary priests founded in 1824.
  2. A member of the Little Brothers of Mary, a Roman Catholic teaching congregation founded in 1817.

[French Mariste, from Marie, the Virgin Mary, from Late Latin Maria. See marionette.]


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