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How did Father Joseph Simler’s twenty-nine-year Generalate complete Blessed William Joseph Chaminade’s foundational vision? How did Simler, the fourth Superior General, also shape the direction of the Society of Mary in an era of increased government control that threatened the very survival of the religious congregation in France at the start of the twentieth century? To find out, read Marianist Father Antonio Gascón Aranda’s second volume of "The General History of the Society of Mary: Generalate of Father Joseph Simler: An International Congregation of Pontifical Right (1873-1905)."

What was the interconnection between the establishment of the Society of Mary and the ever-changing landscape of French society between 1817 and 1875? Read the first volume of "The General History of the Society of Mary" to discover how culture shaped the development of the Society of Mary at the time the Society of Mary developed to shape culture.