Saint Marcellin Champagnat

E291946

Saint Marcellin Champagnat was a 19th-century French Catholic priest and educator who founded a religious congregation devoted to teaching and supporting young people, especially the poor.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (4)

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Catholic priest
French person
founder of religious congregation
saint
associatedWithPlace La Valla-en-Gier, France
surface form: La Valla-en-Gier, Loire, France

Notre-Dame de l’Hermitage, Saint-Chamond, Loire, France
surface form: Notre-Dame de l’Hermitage, Saint-Chamond, France
beatificationDate 1955-05-29
beatificationPlace Rome
surface form: Rome, Italy
beatifiedBy Pope Pius XII
birthDate 1789-05-20
birthPlace Marlhes, Loire, France
canonizationDate 1999-04-18
canonizationPlace St. Peter's Square
surface form: St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City
canonizationStatus canonized saint
canonizedBy Pope John Paul II
countryOfCitizenship France
deathDate 1840-06-06
deathPlace Notre-Dame de l’Hermitage, Saint-Chamond, Loire, France
educationalFocus poor children
religious and moral formation of young people
rural youth
era 19th century
familyName Champagnat
feastDay June 6
foundationDateOfFoundedOrganization 1817
foundationPlaceOfFoundedOrganization La Valla-en-Gier, France
surface form: La Valla-en-Gier, Loire, France
founded Marist Brothers
surface form: Institute of the Marist Brothers of the Schools

Little Brothers of Mary
Marist Brothers
fullName Saint Marcellin Champagnat self-linksurface differs
surface form: Marcellin Joseph Benoît Champagnat
givenName Marcellin
influenced Catholic education worldwide
Marist Brothers
surface form: Marist Brothers educational tradition
influencedBy Jean-Claude Colin
Marist Fathers
knownFor founding a congregation devoted to teaching and supporting young people, especially the poor
language French
memberOf Society of Saint-Sulpice
surface form: Society of the Priests of Saint Irenaeus (Lyon clergy)
motto All to Jesus through Mary, all to Mary for Jesus
notableIdea Christian education in the Marist tradition
education of poor and neglected youth
notableWork development of schools for rural and poor children in France
occupation Catholic priest
educator
partOf Marist Family
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church
title Apostle of Youth
Founder of the Marist Brothers
veneratedIn Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Saint Marcellin Champagnat
Description of subject: Saint Marcellin Champagnat was a 19th-century French Catholic priest and educator who founded a religious congregation devoted to teaching and supporting young people, especially the poor.

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Marist Brothers foundedBy Saint Marcellin Champagnat
Marist Brothers founder Saint Marcellin Champagnat
Marist Brothers hasNotableMember Saint Marcellin Champagnat
Saint Marcellin Champagnat fullName Saint Marcellin Champagnat self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Marcellin Champagnat
this entity surface form: Marcellin Joseph Benoît Champagnat
Little Brothers of Mary foundedBy Saint Marcellin Champagnat
this entity surface form: Marcellin Champagnat
Little Brothers of Mary founder Saint Marcellin Champagnat
Marist Family hasCharismInspiredBy Saint Marcellin Champagnat
Marist Family foundedAroundCharismOf Saint Marcellin Champagnat
Marist Family associatedWithSaint Saint Marcellin Champagnat
Superior General firstSuperiorGeneral Saint Marcellin Champagnat
subject surface form: Superior General of the Marist Brothers
La Valla-en-Gier, France hasReligiousSignificance Saint Marcellin Champagnat
subject surface form: La Valla-en-Gier
this entity surface form: associated with Saint Marcellin Champagnat