FMS Premier freres INGL:Layout 1
9-10-2009
15:38
Pagina 203
Prayer with Brother Cassien and Brother Arsène Let us pray with Brothers Cassien and Arsène whose lives are presented in the single biography by Brother Jean-Baptiste. We remember that these two brothers were older than Marcellin Champagnat: Louis Chomat (Brother Cassien) was born in 1788 and Césaire Fayol (Brother Arsène) in 1783.
• These two brothers worked together for a long time at the school in Sorbiers which looked after some boarders from the nearby communes.
• We have no knowledge of the childhood of Césaire Fayol; we know that Louis Chomat lost his mother while very young, and his father when he was ten years old.
• Young Louis came to take seriously the advice of a pious aunt, and that of Father Dervieux, pastor of Saint Pierre in Saint-Chamond who became his spiritual director from 1812 to 1820.
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