Back Gemeinschaft Sankt Martin German Comunidad San Martín Spanish Communauté Saint-Martin French Comunità di San Martino Italian Communitas Sancti Martini Latin
Communauté Saint-Martin | |
| Abbreviation | CSM |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1976 |
| Founders | Jean-François Guérin |
| Type | Public clerical association of pontifical right |
| Headquarters | Évron, France |
| Membership |
|
general moderator | Paul Préaux |
| Website | https://www.communautesaintmartin.org/ |
The Community of Saint Martin is a public association of clerics according to pontifical law, gathering Roman Catholic priests and deacons. It was founded in 1976 by Father Jean-François Guérin, a priest from the Archdiocese of Tours (France), under the protection of Cardinal Giuseppe Siri, Archbishop of Genoa (Italy). The community focuses on more traditional and reverent aspects of the liturgy, with its priests wearing cassocks and offering Novus Ordo Mass often in Latin, with Gregorian chant and ad orientem.
In 2023, the Community included 185 priests and deacons and more than 100 seminarians.[1] Priests of the Community work in parishes, schools, nursing homes, chaplaincies, or sanctuaries in 30 dioceses in France, Germany, Cuba and Italy. The priests and deacons of the Community are sent in groups of at least three to live and pray together in a spiritual and practical brotherhood.
- ^ "Qui sommes nous ?". Communauté Saint-Martin (in French). Retrieved 2023-07-02.