History

Who is St. Marcellin Champagnat?

Saint Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat (20th of May 1789 – 6th of June 1840) was born in Le Rosey, village of Marlhes, near St. Etienne (Loire), France. He was the founder of the Marist Brothers, a religious congregation of brothers in the Roman Catholic Church devoted to Mary and dedicated to education. His feast day is 6 June, his death anniversary.St Marcellin was ordained as a priest on the 22nd of July 1816, and was part of a group led by Jean-Claude Colin, who founded the Society of Mary, a separate religious congregation to the Marist Brothers teaching order Marcellin founded later. Marcellin was born in the year of the storming of the Bastille, the start of the French Revolution. The religious, political, economic and social unrest of the times he lived influenced his priorities and life path. Marcellin was well known for being a great child in school.

Notre Dame of Cotabato, Inc. is a Catholic private school founded in 1945 by the Oblate Fathers (OMI) and currently administered by the Marist Brothers.

The Oblate Fathers invited Br. Maurus James Doherty, Br. Herbert Daniel Dumont, Br. Joseph Damian Teston and Br. Peter Leonard Thommen to start a mission in the country. But because of the World War, the plan was delayed for a couple of years. After the war, the said four Marist Brothers arrived here on June 21, 1948 and took over the Notre Dame Academy from the Oblates, thus become the first Marist school in the Philippines.[1] The Religious of Virgin Mary (RVM) Sisters, who had been helping the Oblates in running the school, then took care of the girls department (now Notre Dame – RVM College of Cotabato), while the Brothers has the boys department, thus giving birth to Notre Dame of Cotabato (Boys' Department). In June 1996, the school opened an afternoon short session for boys and girls. In June 2000, the school started to admit girls to the day shift session. The Notre Dame of Cotabato or (NDC) is the only Marist School at Cotabato City.

Address: Sinsuat Ave, Rosary Heights 2, Cotabato City,

Maguindanao Phone: (064) 421 2846

Motto: Ad Jesum per Mariam

(Latin);

All to Jesus through Mary

Founded: 21 June 1948

Color: Blue and White