ST. FRANCIS DE SALES SCHOOL

Fr. Peter Marie Mermier - Founder of Missionaries of St. Francis De Sales 

 

Fransalian Society was founded in France in the year 1838, more than two centuries after the death of St. Francis de Sales, by Peter Marie Mermier, who also established the Congregation of the Sisters of the Cross.

 

Peter Marie Mermier was born on 28th August 1790 at Chamount, France. As a young man, Peter Marie Mermier decided to dedicate his life to the service of God and others. As a Priest, he was a great educationist who combined kindness with firmness, making use of a healthy familiarity to open hearts and create trust. While teaching, he discovered that his mission was to help young and old to live the ideals taught by Jesus Christ and which St. Francis De Sales had practiced so well. It was to spread these ideals that the Fransalians were founded in 1836 at Annecy, France. 

 

He died on 30th Sept. 1862 at Annecy. He was an educator with a vision, who advised his teacher–confreres, to love their pupils, to be a mother to them by their tenderness and a father by their direction. As an educator he wished teachers and students, to do everything in a spirit of peace and charity, patience and gentleness. From the pupils he wished three things : Knowledge, Wisdom and Discipline.