These headings are based on the Library of Congress’s Subject Headings (LCSH) and, in several instances, replicate LCSH and its governing rules. These subject headings were compiled in 2008 by Teresa Trimboli, NACMS Librarian, and Shirley Martyn, Cataloging Librarian at St. Mary's University of San Antonio.

However, to create a single resource for catalogers of Marianist materials, all headings deemed pertinent to the Society of Mary, the Daughters of Mary Immaculate and all groups of the Marianist Family were included in this list.

Click here for a downloadable PDF version of these subject headings.

Introduction

This list originated with the need to provide cataloging staffs at Marianist Libraries and libraries with Marianist Collections with guidelines for assigning subject headings to these library materials. It is meant to be used in conjunction with the Marianist Library Classification (Rev. ed., 2006).

These headings are based on the Library of Congress’s Subject Headings (LCSH) and, in several instances, replicate LCSH and its governing rules. However, to create a single resource for catalogers of Marianist materials, all headings deemed pertinent to the Society of Mary, the Daughters of Mary Immaculate and all groups of the Marianist Family were included in this list.

A compilation of free-floating subdivisions is also included here. Unless otherwise directed these subdivisions should be used after replacing the term(s) in square brackets ([ ]) with an appropriate topic/subject or name term. For example, [Corporate name] – [Geographical subdivision] – Marianist history – [dates] would become Marianists – United States – Marianist history – 20th century.

The founders of the Society of Mary (William Joseph Chaminade, Adèle de Trenquelléon, and Marie Thérèse Lamourous) have additional, specific subdivisions. The full variety of subheadings available for use of the founders is provided under Chaminade’s name as the pattern.

The subject headings are listed alphabetically, as in a thesaurus. Relationships between terms are sometimes represented using Broader Term (BT) for a more general concept, Narrower Term (NT) for more specific topics, and/or Related Term (RT) for similar, related topics. Additionally, Use For (UF) is used to list unauthorized forms of a topic. USE is applied to direct the user from an unauthorized form to the authorized form of a heading. Scope notes have been added in some instances to provide more information regarding the use of a term.

Marianist Subject Headings

  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Devotion
    • USE: Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 -Marian doctrine
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Direction
    • Here are entered works on “Marianist Direction.” Direction refers to the elements of "Marianist direction" which helped shape Chaminade's formation of men and women religious. Direction includes spiritual direction, education, formation, the System of Virtues, retreats, mental prayer, and meditation.
    • UF: Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Spiritual doctrine --- Direction --- Marianist direction --- Spiritual direction (Marianist)
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Faith
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Inspiration at Saragossa
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Last years
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Marian doctrine
    • UF: Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Devotion
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Marian doctrine – Influences on
    • UF: Mary – Blessed Virgin, Saint – Doctrine – Influences on Chaminade's Marian doctrine
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Marian doctrine – Sources
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Marian theology
    • UF: Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Mariology
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Mariology
    • USE: Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Marian theology
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Methods of mental prayer
    • USE: Meditation (Marianist)
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Missionary Apostolic
    • UF: Missionary Apostolic
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Plays
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Popular works
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Secular institutes
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Selections
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Spiritual doctrine
    • USE: Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 - Direction
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 - Written works - Direction
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 - written works, Mary
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Written works – Mystical Body
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Written works – Prayer
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Written works – Spiritual maternity
  • Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Written works – Union with Mary
  • [Corporate name/conference name] – Documents
  • [Corporate name/school name] (city)
  • [Corporate name] – [Corporate subdivision] – Statutes
  • [Corporate name] – [Geographical subdivision] – Marianist history – [dates]
  • [Corporate name] – Acts of the General Chapter
  • [Corporate name] – Affiliation
  • [Corporate name] – Annals
  • [Corporate name] – Anniversaries, etc.
    • RT: [Corporate name] – Jubilee
  • [Corporate name] – Apostolate of
  • [Corporate name] – Assemblies
    • Here are entered works for publications coming out of various meetings.
  • [Corporate name] – Book of Customs
  • [Corporate name] – Bulletins and newsletters
  • [Corporate name] – Ceremonies
  • [Corporate name] – Circulars
  • [Corporate name] – Circulars – Indexes
  • [Corporate name] – Congresses
  • [Corporate name] – Consecration
  • [Corporate name] – Constitutions
    • RT: [Corporate name] – Rule of Life
  • [Corporate name] – Constitutions, [date]
    • for example: Society of Mary – Constitutions, 1839
    • RT: [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date]
  • [Corporate name] – Constitutions, [date] – [may subdivide by language]
  • [Corporate name] – Constitutions, [date] – Capitular edition
  • [Corporate name] – Constitutions, [date] – Commentaries
  • [Corporate name] – Constitutions, [date] – Comparative studies
  • [Corporate name] – Constitutions, [date] – Concordance
  • [Corporate name] – Constitutions, [date] - Decree of Praise
  • [Corporate name] – Constitutions, [date] – Draft
  • [Corporate name] – Constitutions, [date] – History
  • [Corporate name] – Constitutions, [date] – Indexes
  • [Corporate name] – Constitutions, [date] - Observance
  • [Corporate name] – Constitutions, [date] – References to
  • [Corporate name] – Constitutions, [date] - Revisions
  • [Corporate name] – Devotions
  • [Corporate name] – Documents
  • [Corporate name] – Education (Elementary)
  • [Corporate name] – Education (Graduate)
  • [Corporate name] – Education (Higher)
  • [Corporate name] – Education (Middle school)
  • [Corporate name] – Education (Preschool)
  • [Corporate name] – Education (Secondary)
  • [Corporate name] – Elections
  • [Corporate name] - Formularies
  • [Corporate name] General Administration. Office of Instruction – Circulars
  • [Corporate name] General Administration. Office of Religious Life – Circulars
    • Here are entered circulars sent to members of the Society of Mary after the General Chapter of 1981.
  • [Corporate name] General Administration. Office of Zeal – Circulars
    • Here are entered circulars sent to members of the Society of Mary before the General Chapter of 1981.
  • [Corporate name] – General Chapter (number : year)
    • for example: Society of Mary – General Chapter (33rd : 2006)
  • [Corporate name] – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  • [Corporate name] – History
  • [Corporate name] – Illustrations
  • [Corporate name] - Index
  • [Corporate name] – Information and other related material
  • [Corporate name] – Jubilee
    • RT: [Corporate name] – Anniversaries, etc.
  • [Corporate name] – Merger of Provinces
  • [Corporate name] – Mission
  • [Corporate name] – Missions
  • [Corporate name] – Necrologies – (May Subd Geog)
    • UF: Obituaries
  • [Corporate name] – Periodicals - Indexes
  • [Corporate name] – Personnel, directories, etc.
  • [Corporate name] – Positio
  • [Corporate name] – Prayer-books
  • [Corporate name] – Profession of vows
    • Here are included works of vow renewal ceremonies.
  • [Corporate name] – Programs
  • [Corporate name] – Province
  • [Corporate name] – Province Book
    • RT: Province Books
  • [Corporate name] – Provincial Chapter (year)
  • [Corporate name] – Publications
  • [Corporate name] – Region
  • [Corporate name] – Regional Meeting
  • [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date]
    • RT: [Corporate name] – Constitutions, date
  • [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date] – [may subdivide by language]
  • [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date] – Capitular edition
  • [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date] – Commentaries
  • [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date] – Comparative studies
  • [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date] – Concordance
  • [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date] - Decree of Praise
  • [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date] – Draft
  • [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date] – History
  • [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date] – History and criticism
  • [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date] – Indexes
  • [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date] - Observance
  • [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date] – References to
  • [Corporate name] – Rule of Life, [date] - Revisions
  • [Corporate name] – Spirituality
  • [Corporate name] – Statistics
  • [Corporate name] - Superior General (Name : dates in office)
  • [Corporate name] – Surveys and questionnaires
  • [Corporate name] – Visitation
  • [Corporate name] – Visitation report
  • [Corporate name] – Written works
  • [Corporate name] – Yearbook
  • [Corporate Province name] - [corporate name] – Documents
  • [Corporate Province name] - [corporate name] – History
  • [Free floating] – Bibliography
  • [Free floating] - Circulars
  • [Free floating] – Indexes
  • [Free floating] – Maps
  • [Free floating] – Periodicals
  • [Free floating] - Quotations
  • [Free floating] – Textbooks
  • [Geographic name] – Novitiates
  • [Geographic name] – Postulates
  • [Geographic name] - Provincialate
  • [Geographic name] - Scholasticates
  • [Personal name] – Addresses, essays, lectures
  • [Personal name] – Anniversaries, etc.
    • RT: [Personal name] - Jubilee
  • [Personal name] – Beatification
  • [Personal name] – Biography
  • [Personal name] – Canonization
  • [Personal name] – Cause of canonization
  • [Personal name] – Ceremonies
  • [Personal name] – Circulars
  • [Personal name] – Circulars – Index
  • [Personal name] – Collections
  • [Personal name] – Education
  • [Personal name] – Festschrift
  • [Personal name] – Illustrations
  • [Personal name] – Jubilee
    • RT: [Personal name] – Anniversaries, etc.
  • [Personal name] – Letters
  • [Personal name] – Letters – Index
  • [Personal name] – Life
  • [Personal name] – Marian doctrine
  • [Personal name] – Missionary apostolic
  • [Personal name] – Plays
  • [Personal name] – Poetic works
  • [Personal name] – Popular works
  • [Personal name] – Positio
  • [Personal name] – Process of beatification
  • [Personal name] – Processo Informativo
    • USE: [Personal name] – Process of beatification
  • [Personal name] – Spiritual conferences
  • [Personal name] – Spiritual doctrine
  • [Personal name] – Spiritual life
  • [Personal name] – Written works
    • RT: Marianists (Works by)
  • Abnegation of the self
    • USE: System of Virtues – Consummation Virtues
  • Active life
  • Administration (Marianist)
  • Admonitor
  • Alliance Mariale
    • Here are entered works on the Marianist Secular Institute in France.
  • Alliance with Mary
  • Alumni sodalities
    • USE: Marianist Family
  • Apostles Creed (Marianist)
    • UF: Creed
  • Apostolate (Marianist)
    • RT: Ministry (Marianist) --- Catholic action
  • Apostolic action (Marianist)
  • Apostolic action and Chaminade
  • Apostolic Action, Office of
    • USE: Office of Apostolic Action
  • Apostolic formation
  • Apostolic formation – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  • Apostolic mission of Mary
    • USE: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Apostolic mission
  • Apostolic mission
    • USE: Marianist apostolic mission
  • Asceticism (Marianist)
  • Aspirancy (Marianist) – (May Subd Geog)
    • RT: Formation (Marianist) --- Initial Formation (Marianist)
    • UF: Pre-Novitiate
  • Aspirancy (Marianist) – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  • Aspirancy (Marianist) – Program
  • Assistant Provincial (Name : dates in office)
    • RT: Vice Provincial (Name : dates in office)
  • Baptismal Consecration
    • USE: Consecration to Mary
  • Batz de Trenquelléon, Adèle de, 1787-1828
    • The subdivisions used under “Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850” may also be used here.
  • Better World Movement
  • Biography – Index
  • Book of Customs (F.M.I.) – [Geographical subdivision]
    • UF: Customs book
  • Book of Customs (S.M.) – [Geographical subdivision]
    • UF: Customs book
  • Brothers of the Beloved Disciple
    • Here are entered works on the religious congregation of men founded by Father George Montague, S.M., in San Antonio, Texas. This congregation is not considered part of the Marianist Family.
  • Campus ministry
  • Candidates – Formation
  • Canonization
    • RT: Inquisitio historica --- Positio
  • Categories in the Society of Mary
    • RT: Mixed composition
    • NT: Teaching brothers --- Working brothers
    • UF: Three Categories
  • Catholic action – [geographical subdivision]
    • RT: Apostolate (Marianist)
  • Catholic Authors (Series)
  • Chaminade Day
  • Chapelle de la Madeleine
    • USE: Madeleine Chapel
  • Chapter of Faults
    • UF: Coulpe --- Fraternal correction
  • Characteristic virtues
    • USE: Marianist spirituality
  • Chastity (Vow)
    • USE: Vow of Chastity
  • Cloister (Vow)
    • USE: Vow of Enclosure (Daughters of Mary Immaculate)
  • Collaboration, Religious and lay
  • Collège Stanislas (Paris)
    • Here are entered works on the secondary school conducted by the Society of Mary from 1854 to 1903.
  • Common Bond (Organization)
    • Here are entered works on the organization of former members of the Society of Mary.
  • Common life (Marianist)
    • USE: Marianist common life
  • Community life (Marianist)
    • USE: Marianist community life
  • Conference on Order
    • USE: Marianist community life
  • Confidence in God
    • USE: System of Virtues – Purification Virtues
  • Conscience, Examination of
    • UF: Examen --- Particular Examen
  • Consecration (Vow)
    • USE: Vow of Stability
  • Consecration to Mary
    • Here are entered works that also treat baptismal consecration as an aspect of Consecration to Mary.
    • UF: Baptismal consecration --- Holy slavery --- Marian consecration --- Marianists and baptismal consecration --- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Consecration to
    • NT: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Slavery to
  • Consecrées
    • Here are entered works on the women's group of the Marianist Family founded by Father Herbert Kramer, S.M., in Bordeaux, France.
  • Contemplation
    • UF: Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Methods of mental prayer --- Mental prayer
    • RT: Meditations (Marianist)
  • Coulpe
    • USE: Chapter of Faults
  • Creed
    • USE: Apostles' Creed
  • Curé of Ars
    • USE: Vianney, Jean Baptiste Marie, Saint, 1786-1859
  • Customs Book
    • USE: Book of Customs (F.M.I.) --- Book of Customs (S.M.)
  • Dames de la Miséricorde
    • Here are entered works on the religious congregation founded by Marie Thérèse de Lamourous.
    • RT: Miséricorde, The
  • Daughters of Mary Immaculate
    • UF: Marianist sisters
  • Daughters of Mary Immaculate – Third Order Regular
  • Daughters of Mary Immaculate – Third Order Secular
  • Dayton, Ohio
    • USE: Nazareth (Dayton, Ohio) --- Mount St. John (Dayton, Ohio)
  • Devotions, Popular
    • UF: Litany --- Novenas --- Rosary --- Way of the Cross
  • Direction
    • USE: Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Direction
  • Directors
    • UF: Superiors
  • Directors – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  • Discernment of Spirits (Marianist)
    • UF: Marianist discernment
  • Distrust of self
    • USE: System of Virtues – Purification Virtues
  • Education
    • USE: Marianist education
  • Education, Office of
    • USE: [Corporate name] - Office of Education
  • Elementary education
    • USE: Marianist education
  • Enclosure (Vow)
    • USE: Vow of Enclosure (Daughters of Mary Immaculate)
  • État
    • USE: State, The
  • État (Vows)
    • USE: Vows in the State
  • État and Chaminade
    • USE: State, The, and Chaminade
  • Examen
    • USE: Conscience, Examination of
  • Faith (Marianist) – Meditations
  • Faith of the Heart
    • RT: Marianist spirituality --- Prayer of Faith
  • Family of Mary
    • Here are entered works on lay groups that are part of the Family of Mary. The term “Family of Mary” came into use after 1940. The Family of Mary or Marianist Family includes the Society of Mary, Daughters of Mary, Alliance Mariale, The State, Marianist Lay Communities, sodalities, and groups from any state of life who recognize their common bond in the Marianist Spirit.
    • RT: Marianist Family
  • Family Spirit
    • USE: Marianist spirituality – Characteristic virtues – Family spirit
  • Feast days (Marianists)
    • USE: Marianist feasts
  • Feast of Purification (Feb. 2)
    • USE: Patronal feasts and saints
  • Filial piety
    • Here are entered works using the term used for the Marianist devotion to Mary from c.1875 to c.1960.
  • Filial piety – History and origin
  • Final Vows
    • USE: Perpetual Vows
  • Five Silences
    • USE: System of Virtues – Preparation Virtues
  • Formation (Marianist)
    • RT: Initial Formation (Marianist) --- Aspirancy (Marianist) --- Novitiates (Marianist) --- On-going Formation (Marianist) --- Postulates (Marianist) --- Scholasticates (Marianist) --- Seminaries (Marianist)
  • Formation (Marianist) – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  • Formation (Marianist) – Programs
  • Formularies (May subdivide by language)
  • Fraternal correction
    • USE: Chapter of Faults
  • French School of Spirituality
  • French School of Spirituality and Chaminade
  • Holy Name of Mary (Sept. 12)
    • USE: Patronal feasts and saints
  • Holy slavery
    • USE: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Slavery to
    • BT: Consecration to Mary
  • Hospitality
    • USE: Marianist spirituality – Marianist Hospitality
  • House Council
  • Humility
    • USE: System of Virtues – Consummation Virtues
  • Hymnals (Marianist)
  • Initial Formation (Marianist)
    • RT: Aspirancy (Marianist) --- Formation (Marianist) --- Novitiates (Marianist) --- Postulates (Marianist) --- Scholasticates (Marianist)
  • Initial Formation (Marianist) – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  • Initial Formation (Marianist) – Programs
  • Inquisitio historica
    • RT: Canonization
  • Institutional Apostolate
    • USE: Marianist presence
  • Instruction, Office of
    • USE: [Corporate name] - Office of Instruction
  • Interior life
    • USE: Marianist spirituality
  • Internal recruitment
    • USE: Perseverance
  • John, the Apostle, Saint
    • USE: Patronal feasts and saints
  • Joseph, Saint
    • USE: Patronal feasts and saints
  • Laity – Formation
  • Lamourous, Marie Thérèse Charlotte de, 1754-1836
    • The subdivisions used under “Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850” may also be used here.
  • Lay Apostolate
  • Lay teachers in Marianist schools
  • Litany
    • USE: Devotions, Popular
  • Little Office of the Immaculate Conception
    • RT: Prayers particular to Marianists
  • Liturgical calendar
  • Liturgy of the Hours
  • Madeleine Chapel
    • UF: Sodality of Bordeaux
  • Madeleine Sodality
  • Madeleine Sodality – Devotion to Mary
  • Madeleine Sodality and The State
  • Manual labor
    • USE: Work (Marianist)
  • Marian bibliography
    • USE: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Bibliography
  • Marian consecration
    • USE: Consecration to Mary
  • Marian theology (Marianist)
    • UF: Mariology
  • Marianist Administration
    • UF: Marianist government
  • Marianist Administration – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  • Marianist Adult Sodalities
    • USE: Marianist Family
  • Marianist affiliates – [geographical heading] – Periodicals
  • Marianist affiliates – Biography
  • Marianist affiliates – Ceremonials
  • Marianist affiliates – Certificates
  • Marianist affiliates – Directories
  • Marianist affiliates – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  • Marianist affiliates – Letters to
  • Marianist affiliates – Rule
  • Marianist affiliates
    • RT: National Association of Marianist Organizations (NAMO)
  • Marianist Apostolic Faith Communities
    • USE: Marianist Family
  • Marianist apostolic mission
    • UF: Apostolic mission
  • Marianist archives
  • Marianist associates – (May Subd Geog)
  • Marianist bibliography
  • Marianist bibliography – Indexes
  • Marianist biographies
    • Here are entered works of collected biographies.
    • UF: Menologies
  • Marianist biographies – Indexes
  • Marianist charism
    • USE: Marianist spirituality
  • Marianist classification schedules
  • Marianist common life
    • Here are entered works dealing with Marianist community life before Vatican II, 1965.
    • UF: Common life (Marianist) --- Community life (Marianist)
  • Marianist communities without vows
    • USE: Marianist Family
  • Marianist community – Formation
  • Marianist community life
    • Here are entered works dealing with Marianist community life after Vatican II, 1965.
    • UF: Common life (Marianist) --- Community life (Marianist)
  • Marianist co-workers – (May Subd Geog)
  • Marianist devotions
  • Marianist direction
    • USE: Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Direction
  • Marianist discernment
    • USE: Discernment of Spirits (Marianist)
  • Marianist Doxology
    • RT: Prayers particular to Marianists
  • Marianist education
    • UF: Education --- Elementary education --- Normal schools --- Secondary education
  • Marianist Family
    • Here are entered works on lay groups that are part of the Marianist Family. The term “Marianist Family” came into use after 1970 as an alternate term for “Family of Mary.” The Marianist Family or Family of Mary includes the Society of Mary, Daughters of Mary, Alliance Mariale, The State, Marianist Lay Communities, sodalities, and groups from any state of life who recognize their common bond in the Marianist Spirit.
    • UF: Alumni sodalities --- Marianist adult sodalities --- Marianist Apostolic Faith Communities --- Marianist Communities without Vows --- Marianist Lay Communities
    • RT: Family of Mary --- School sodalities --- Sodalities
  • Marianist Family – [Geographic subdivision] – History – [year]
  • Marianist Family – Ceremonies
  • Marianist Family – Collective biography
  • Marianist Family – Consecration
  • Marianist Family – Devotions
  • Marianist Family – History
  • Marianist Family – Liturgy
  • Marianist Family – Spirituality
  • Marianist Family – Theology
  • Marianist feasts
    • Here are entered works on feasts, such as the feast of Our Lady of the Pillar or the Queenship of Mary, that hold special significance for a particular group of the Marianist Family. Includes masses proper to the Society of Mary.
    • RT: Patronal feasts and saints
    • UF: Feast days (Marianist)
  • Marianist feasts – [Name of the feast]
  • Marianist feasts – Liturgy
    • USE: Marianist feasts
  • Marianist feasts – Meditations
  • Marianist government
    • USE: Marianist Administration
  • Marianist Lay Communities
    • USE: Marianist Family
  • Marianist League
    • USE: National Association of Marianist Organizations (NAMO)
  • Marianist martyrs
  • Marianist martyrs – Spanish Martyrs of Ciudad Real
  • Marianist martyrs – Spanish Martyrs of Madrid
  • Marianist martyrs – Spanish Martyrs of Ciudad Real – Beatification
  • Marianist martyrs – Spanish Martyrs of Madrid – Beatification
  • Marianist Mass League
    • USE: National Association of Marianist Organizations (NAMO)
  • Marianist parishes
  • Marianist presence
    • UF: Institutional Apostolate
  • Marianist priests – Role of
  • Marianist schools (Graduate)
  • Marianist schools (Higher)
    • UF: Marianist universities
  • Marianist schools (Middle)
  • Marianist schools (Preschool)
  • Marianist schools (Primary)
  • Marianist schools (Secondary)
  • Marianist Sisters
    • USE: Daughters of Mary Immaculate
  • Marianist social system
  • Marianist Sodality – (May Subd Geog)
  • Marianist spirit
    • USE: Marianist spirituality
  • Marianist spirituality
    • UF: Characteristic virtues --- Faith of the heart --- Interior life --- Marianist charism --- Marianist spirit --- Spiritual life (Marianist)
  • Marianist spirituality (Characteristics of)
    • NT: Marianist spirituality - Characteristic virtues --- Marianist spirituality - Marianist hospitality --- Marianist spirituality - Marianist universality --- Marianist spirituality - Multiplication of Christians
  • Marianist spirituality – Characteristic virtues
    • Here are entered works on the Characteristic virtues as enumerated by the 1891 Constitutions of the Society of Mary. The virtues designated as the “characteristic virtues of the Society of Mary” are: family spirit, filial piety, humility, simplicity, spirit of faith, and spirit of prayer and meditation.
  • Marianist spirituality – Characteristic virtues – Devotion to Mary
  • Marianist spirituality – Characteristic virtues – Family spirit
    • UF: Family spirit
  • Marianist spirituality – Characteristic virtues – Filial piety
    • Here are entered works on Marianist devotion to Mary. The term “Filial Piety” was used from about 1870 to 1960.
  • Marianist spirituality – Characteristic virtues – Humility
  • Marianist spirituality – Characteristic virtues – Simplicity
    • UF: Simplicity
  • Marianist spirituality – Characteristic virtues – Spirit of faith
    • UF: Spirit of Faith
  • Marianist spirituality – Characteristic virtues – Spirit of prayer and meditation
    • UF: Spirit of mental prayer
  • Marianist spirituality – Marianist hospitality
    • UF: Principle of hospitality --- Hospitality
  • Marianist spirituality – Marianist universality
    • UF: Principle of universality --- Universality
  • Marianist spirituality – Mary the New Eve
  • Marianist spirituality – Missionaries of Mary
    • UF: Missionaries of Mary
  • Marianist spirituality – Multiplication of Christians
    • UF: Multiplication of Christians --- Principle of multiplication of Christians
  • Marianist spirituality – Spiritual maternity of Mary
    • UF: Spiritual maternity and Chaminade --- Spiritual maternity of Mary
  • Marianist Studies Program
  • Marianist universality
    • USE: Marianist spirituality – Marianist universality
  • Marianist universities
    • USE: Marianist schools (Higher)
  • Marianist vision
    • Here are entered overviews, syntheses, and comprehensive works.
  • Marianists – (May Subd Geog)
    • Here are entered works about members of the Society of Mary, Daughters of Mary Immaculate, Alliance Mariale, and members of the Family of Mary.
  • Marianists – Atlas
  • Marianists – Formularies
  • Marianists – Necrologies
  • Marianists (Works by)
    • Here are entered only those works by a Marianist author on a non-Marianist subject in the holdings of a Marianist Library.
    • RT: [Personal name] – Written works
  • Marianists and baptismal consecration
    • USE: Consecration to Mary
  • Marianists and the Rule of Saint Benedict
  • Mariology
    • USE: Marian theology
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Alliance with
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Annunciation
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Apostolic mission
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – At Calvary
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Bibliography
    • UF: Marian bibliography
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Bibliography – Indexes
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Biography
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Consecration to
    • USE: Consecration to Mary
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – History of doctrines (in the Society of Mary)
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – In education
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Meditation
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Prayer-books
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Slavery to
    • BT: Consecration to Mary
  • Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint – Spiritual maternity of
    • USE: Marianist spirituality – Spirituality maternity of Mary
  • Masses proper to the Society of Mary
    • USE: Patronal feasts and saints
  • Meditation (Marianist)
    • UF: Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Methods of mental prayer --- Mental prayer
    • RT: Meditations (Marianist)
  • Meditations (Marianist)
    • RT: Meditation (Marianist)
  • Menology
    • USE: Marianist biographies
  • Mental prayer
    • USE: Meditation (Marianist)
  • Ministry (Marianist)
    • RT: Apostolate (Marianist)
  • Miséricorde, The
    • Here are entered works on the institution for repentant prostitutes founded by Marie Thérèse de Lamourous.
    • RT: Dames de la Miséricorde
  • Mission of the House – (May Subd Geog)
  • Mission of the Province – (May Subd Geog)
  • Missionaries of Mary
    • USE: Marianist spirituality – Missionaries of Mary
  • Missionary Apostolic
    • USE: Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Missionary Apostolic
  • Missionary spirit
  • Mixed composition
    • RT: Categories in the Society of Mary --- Priests --- Teaching brothers --- Working brothers
  • Modesty
    • USE: System of Virtues – Consummation Virtues
  • Mortification
    • USE: System of virtues – Preparation Virtues
  • Mount St. John (Dayton, Ohio)
    • Here are entered works concerning any Marianist ministry or institution that is or has been located on the property known as Mount St. John. In 1911, the postulate, novitiate, scholasticate, and provincialate of the Society of Mary moved from Nazareth to Mount St. John. Since 1956 Mount St. John has also been the location of various Marianist ministries, such as Bergamo Conference Center, Marianist Retreat House, Queen of Apostles Parish, Gallery St. John, Marianist Environmental Educational Center (MEEC), North American Center for Marianist Studies (NACMS), Marianist Publications and communities of Marianist religious.
  • Multiplication of Christians
    • USE: Marianist spirituality – Multiplication of Christians
  • NAMO
    • USE: National Association of Marianist Organizations (NAMO)
  • National Association of Marianist Organizations (NAMO) – (May Subd Geog)
    • Here are entered works about the Marianist affiliates, Marianist League, Marianist Mass League.
    • RT: Marianist affiliates
    • UF: Marianist League --- Marianist Mass League --- NAMO
  • Nazareth (Dayton, Ohio)
    • Here are entered works about or using the historical designation for the property where the Society of Mary began in the United States; currently that property is the site of the University of Dayton.
  • Normal Schools
    • USE: Marianist education
  • Novenas
    • USE: Devotions, Popular
  • Novitiates (Marianist) – (May Subd Geog)
    • RT: Formation (Marianist) --- Initial Formation (Marianist)
  • Novitiates (Marianist) – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  • Novitiates (Marianist) – Program
  • Obedience (Vow)
    • USE: Vow of Obedience
  • Obituaries
    • USE: [Corporate name] – Necrology
  • Office of Apostolic Action
    • UF: Apostolic Action, Office of
  • Office of Inspector (Name : dates in office)
    • RT: Three Offices
  • Office of Inspector-General
    • RT: Three Offices
  • Office of Instruction (2nd Assistant)
    • RT: Three Offices
  • Office of Instruction (Name : dates in office)
    • RT: Three Offices
  • Office of Religious Life (Name : dates in office)
    • RT: Three Offices
  • Office of Temporalities (Name : dates in office)
    • RT: Three Offices
  • Office of Temporalities/Socio-Economic Affairs (3rd Assistant)
    • RT: Three Offices
  • Office of Zeal (Name : dates in office)
    • RT: Three Offices
  • Office of Zeal/Religious Life (1st Assistant)
    • RT: Three Offices
  • Offices
    • USE: Three Offices
  • On-going Formation (Marianist)
    • RT: Formation (Marianist)
  • On-going Formation (Marianist) – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  • On-going Formation (Marianist) – Programs
  • Particular Examen
    • USE: Conscience, Examination of
  • Patience
    • USE: System of Virtues – Purification Virtues
  • Patronal feasts and saints
    • Here are entered works on feasts and saints considered patrons of any group of the Family of Mary. Include here masses proper to the Society of Mary.
    • UF: John, the Apostle, Saint --- Joseph, Saint --- Feast of the Purification (Feb. 2) --- Holy Name of Mary (Sept. 12) --- Masses proper to the Society of Mary
    • RT: Marianist feasts
  • Pedagogy
    • USE: Marianist education
  • Perpetual Vows
    • UF: Final vows
    • RT: Vows
  • Perseverance
    • UF: Internal recruitment
  • Positio
    • RT: Canonization
  • Postulates (Marianist) (May Subd Geog)
    • RT: Formation (Marianist) --- Initial Formation (Marianist)
  • Postulates (Marianist) – Formation
  • Postulates (Marianist) – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  • Poverty (Vow)
    • USE: Vow of Poverty
  • Prayer in common
    • USE: Spiritual exercises
  • Prayer life
  • Prayer of Faith
    • RT: Faith of the Heart --- Marianist spirituality
  • Prayers particular to Marianists
    • RT: Little Office of the Immaculate Conception --- Marianist Doxology --- Three O'clock Prayer
  • Pre-Novitiate
    • USE: Aspirancy (Marianist) --- Postulates (Marianist)
  • Preparatory Obedience
    • USE: System of Virtues – Preparation Virtues
  • Priests – Apostolate of
  • Priests
    • RT: Mixed composition
  • Principle of hospitality
    • USE: Marianist spirituality – Marianist hospitality
  • Principle of universality
    • USE: Marianist spirituality – Marianist universality
  • Province book
    • USE: [Corporate name] – Province book
  • Provincial, F.M.I. (Name : dates in office)
  • Provincial, S.M. (Name : dates in office)
  • Recollection
    • USE: System of Virtues – Preparation Virtues
  • Recourse to counsel
    • USE: System of Virtues – Purification Virtues
  • Recruitment
  • Recruitment – Publications
  • Religious community
  • Religious habit
  • Religious life (Marianist) – Catechism
  • Religious life (Marianist) – Meditations on
  • Religious Life, Office of
    • US:E Office of Zeal
  • Religious vows
  • Renewal of resolutions
    • USE: System of Virtues – Purification Virtues
  • Renunciation of the world
    • USE: System of Virtues – Consummation Virtues
  • Resistance of Temptations
    • USE: System of Virtues – Purification Virtues
  • Retreat Masters
  • Retreats (Marianist)
    • Here are entered works on Marianist spiritual retreats; includes annual, monthly, & 21 Day Retreat.
  • Retreats (Marianist) – Meditations
  • Ring worn by Marianists
    • BT: Vow of Stability
  • Rosary
    • USE: Devotions, Popular
  • Scholasticates (Marianist) (May Subd Geog)
    • RT: Formation (Marianist) --- Initial Formation (Marianist)
  • Scholasticates (Marianist) – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  • Scholasticates (Marianist) – Program
  • School sodalities
    • UF: Sodality – Cells --- Sodality – Homeroom
    • RT: Marianist Family --- Sodalities
  • Second Novitiate – Formation
  • Secondary education
    • USE: Marianist education
  • Secular institutes (Marianist)
  • Self-abnegation
    • USE: System of Virtues – Consummation Virtues
  • Seminaries (Marianist) (May Subd Geog)
    • RT: Formation (Marianist)
  • Seminaries (Marianist) – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  • Seminaries (Marianist) – Program
  • Separation from the world
    • USE: Third Object
  • Silence of Emotions
    • USE: System of Virtues – Preparation Virtues
  • Silence of the Imagination
    • USE: System of Virtues – Preparation Virtues
  • Silence of the Mind
    • USE: System of Virtues – Preparation Virtues
  • Silence of the Passions
    • USE: System of Virtues – Preparation Virtues
  • Silence of Signs
    • USE: System of Virtues – Preparation Virtues
  • Silence of Words
    • USE: System of Virtues – Preparation Virtues
  • Silences
    • USE: System of Virtues – Preparation Virtues
  • Sillon (Organization)
  • Simplicity
    • USE: Marianist spirituality – Characteristic virtues – Simplicity
  • Sisters of the Beloved Disciple
    • Here are entered works on the religious congregation of women founded by Father George Montague, S.M., in San Antonio, Texas. This congregation is not considered part of the Marianist Family.
  • Society of Mary – [Geographical subdivision] – History – [dates]
  • Society of Mary – Cincinnati Province – Office of Socio-Economic Affairs
    • Here are entered works produced after the 1968 Provincial Chapter of the Cincinnati Province by, about, or from the Office of Temporalities. The term Socio-Economic Affairs was used in place of Temporalities in the Cincinnati Province until 1982.
  • Society of Mary – General Administration – 1st Assistant
    • Here are entered works about the Assistant for Zeal produced before the General Chapter of 1961. The designation of 1st Assistant for the Assistant for Zeal was suppressed in 1961.
    • RT: Society of Mary – General Administration – Office of Zeal --- Society of Mary – General Administration – Office of Religious Life
  • Society of Mary – General Administration – 2nd Assistant
    • Here are entered works about the Assistant for Instruction produced before the General Chapter of 1961. The designation of 2nd Assistant for the Assistant for Instruction was suppressed in 1961.
    • RT: Society of Mary – General Administration – Office of Instruction --- Society of Mary – General Administration – Inspector General
  • Society of Mary – General Administration – 3rd Assistant
    • Here are entered works about the Assistant for Temporalities produced before the General Chapter of 1961. The designation of 3rd Assistant for the Assistant for Temporalities was suppressed in 1961.
    • RT: Society of Mary – General Administration – Office of Temporalities
  • Society of Mary – General Administration – General Assistant for Apostolic Action
    • Here are entered works by, about, or from the General Assistant for Apostolic Action. This position was created at the General Chapter of 1966-67 and ceased after 1981.
    • RT: Society of Mary – General Administration – Office of Zeal --- Society of Mary – General Administration – Office of Religious Life
  • Society of Mary – General Administration – Inspector General
    • The Office of Inspector General was suppressed after the General Chapter of 1961.
    • RT: Society of Mary – General Administration - Office of Instruction --- Society of Mary – General Administration - 2nd Assistant
  • Society of Mary – General Administration – Office of Instruction
    • Here are entered works produced after the General Chapter of 1961.
    • RT: Society of Mary – General Administration – 2nd Assistant
  • Society of Mary – General Administration – Office of Religious Life
    • Here are entered works produced after the General Chapter of 1966-67 by, about, or from the Office of Zeal. The term “Office of Religious Life” was introduced at the General Chapter of 1966-67 as an alternative to the Office of Zeal.
    • RT: Society of Mary – General Administration – 1st Assistant --- Society of Mary – General Administration – Office of Zeal --- Society of Mary – General Administration – General Assistant for Apostolic Action
  • Society of Mary – General Administration – Office of Temporalities
    • RT: Society of Mary – General Administration – 3rd Assistant --- Society of Mary – Cincinnati Province – Office of Socio-Economic Affairs --- Society of Mary – New York Province – Office of Socio-Economic Affairs
  • Society of Mary – General Administration – Office of Zeal
    • Here are entered works produced before the General Chapter of 1966-67 by, about, or from the Office of Religious Life.
    • RT: Society of Mary – General Administration – 1st Assistant --- Society of Mary – General Administration – General Assistant for Apostolic Action --- Society of Mary – General Administration – Office of Religious Life
  • Society of Mary – Information about and related materials
  • Society of Mary – Merger of provinces
  • Society of Mary – New York Province – Office of Socio-Economic Affairs
    • Here are entered works produced after 1968 by, about, or from the Office of Temporalities. The term Socio-Economic Affairs was used in place of Temporalities in the New York Province until 1986.
  • Socio-Economic Affairs, Office of
    • USE: Society of Mary – Cincinnati Province - Office of Socio-Economic Affairs --- Society of Mary – New York Province – Office of Socio-Economic Affairs
    • RT: Society of Mary – General Administration – Office of Temporalities
  • Sodalities
    • RT: Marianist Family --- School sodalities
  • Sodality – [geographic subdivision] – History – [year]
  • Sodality – Activities
  • Sodality – Cells
    • USE: School sodalities
  • Sodality – Congresses
  • Sodality – Congresses – Reports
  • Sodality – Consecration
  • Sodality – Homeroom
    • USE: School sodalities
  • Sodality – Prayer-books and devotions
  • Sodality of Bordeaux
    • USE: Madeleine Sodality
  • Spirit of Faith
    • USE: Marianist spirituality – Characteristic virtues – Spirit of Faith
  • Spirit of mental prayer
    • USE: Marianist spirituality – Characteristic virtues – Spirit of prayer and meditation
  • Spirit of poverty
    • USE: Vow of Poverty
  • Spirit of the world
    • USE: Third Object
  • Spiritual direction (Marianist)
    • USE: Chaminade, Guillaume Joseph, Blessed, 1761-1850 – Direction
  • Spiritual exercises
    • UF: Prayer in common
  • Spiritual life (Marianist)
    • USE: Marianist spirituality
  • Spiritual maternity and Chaminade
    • USE: Marianist spirituality – Spiritual maternity of Mary
  • Spiritual maternity of Mary
    • USE: Marianist spirituality – Spiritual maternity of Mary
  • Spiritual reading (Marianists)
  • Spiritual reading (Marianists) – Bibliographies
  • Spiritual reading (Marianists) – Indexes
  • Stability (Vow)
    • USE: Vow of Stability
  • State, The
    • Here are entered works on "The State of Religious Living in the World." The State is the accepted abbreviated form of the longer title.
    • UF: l’État --- The State
  • State, The, and Chaminade
    • UF: l’État and Chaminade
  • Superior General
    • USE: [Corporate name] – Superior General (Name : dates in office)
  • Superiors
    • USE: Directors
  • Support of mortification
    • USE: System of virtues – Preparation Virtues
  • System of Virtues
  • System of Virtues – Consummation Virtues
    • UF: Abnegation of the self --- Humility --- Modesty --- Renunciation of the world --- Self-abnegation
  • System of Virtues – Preparation Virtues
    • UF: Five Silences --- Mortification --- Preparatory Obedience --- Recollection --- Silence of emotions --- Silence of the Imagination --- Silence of the Passions --- Silence of Signs --- Silence of the Mind --- Silence of Words --- Support of Mortifications --- The Silences
  • System of Virtues -- Purification Virtues
    • UF: Confidence in God --- Distrust of self --- Patience --- Recourse to counsel --- Renewal of resolutions --- Resistance of temptations
  • Teaching brothers
    • RT: Mixed composition
    • BT: Categories in the Society of Mary
  • Teaching brothers – Apostolate of
  • Teaching Faith and Morals (Vow)
    • USE: Vow of Teaching Faith and Christian Practice
  • Temporalities, Office of
    • USE: Office of Temporalities
  • Temporary Vows
    • RT: Vows
  • The State
    • USE: State, The
  • Third category
    • USE: Working brothers
  • Third Object
    • Here are entered works about “the rules of precaution, reserve, and the practices which enable religious in the Society of Mary to attain the First Object [personal salvation] and the Second Object [salvation of others] and to preserve them from the contagion of the spirit of the world."--Constitutions, 1839.
    • UF: Separation from the world --- Spirit of the world
  • Third Order Regular (Marianist)
  • Third Order Secular (Marianist)
  • Three Categories
    • USE: Categories in the Society of Mary
  • Three O'clock Prayer
    • RT: Prayers particular to Marianists
  • Three Offices
    • RT: Office of Instruction (2nd Assistant) --- Office of Temporalities/Socio-Economic Affairs (3rd Assistant) --- Office of Zeal/Religious Life (1st Assistant)
  • Universality
    • USE: Marianist spirituality – Marianist universality
  • Vianney, Jean Baptiste Marie, Saint, 1786-1859
    • UF: Curé of Ars
  • Vicar General
  • Vice Provincial (Name : dates in office)
    • RT: Assistant Provincial (Name : dates in office)
  • Vocation (Marianist)
    • Here are entered works that refer to the calling to be a member in some community of the Marianist Family.
  • Vow of Chastity
    • UF: Chastity (Vow)
  • Vow of Enclosure (Daughters of Mary Immaculate)
    • UF: Cloister (Vow) --- Enclosure (Vow)
  • Vow of Obedience
    • UF: Obedience (Vow)
  • Vow of Poverty
    • UF: Poverty (Vow) --- Spirit of poverty
  • Vow of Stability
    • UF: Consecration (Vow) --- Stability (Vow)
    • NT: Ring worn by Marianists
  • Vow of Teaching Faith and Christian Practice
    • UF: Teaching Faith and Morals (Vow) --- Vow of Teaching Faith and Morals
  • Vow of Teaching Faith and Morals
    • USE: Vow of Teaching Faith and Christian Practice
  • Vowed religious – Programs
  • Vows
    • RT: Perpetual Vows --- Temporary Vows
  • Vows in The State
    • UF: l’État (Vows)
  • Way of the Cross
    • USE: Devotions, Popular
  • Work (Marianist)
    • Here are entered works on the ministries or activities that Marianists engage in.
    • UF: Manual labor
  • Working brothers
    • RT: Mixed composition
    • UF: Third Category
    • BT: Categories in the Society of Mary
  • Working brothers – Apostolate of
  • Zeal, Office of
    • USE: Office of Zeal

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