We are a team of lay and religious men and women, engaged in the work of world evangelization with the Virgin Mary as a model and guide.

To Jesus through Mary

The Marie de Nazareth Association is a French not-for-profit, non-governmental organization of general interest created in 2001. Its mission is to make Mary known and loved, and to help as many people as possible discover the beauty, breadth and truth of the Catholic faith.

We do this by using the best available multimedia tools, in the spirit of Saint Louis de Montfort (1673-1716) and of Christian unity "so that the world may believe"(Jn 17:21).

Marian Centers

We started by creating Marian Evangelization Centers, where visitors can discover or find out more about the Catholic faith through high quality multimedia content and audiovisual productions.

The first one was built in Nazareth from 2001 to 2012 with the support of 20,000 donors (mostly French). We hope to build an addition to that Center very soon.

Other Marian Centers are currently being developed, particularly in Lebanon and Rwanda, or are in the planning phase (France).

Online

The Marie de Nazareth Association is also active on the digital continent where it aims to increase this activity. Our work online consists in managing a dynamic website (this one) in 6 languages, but also:

• to send to 150,000 subscribers a short daily meditation called A Moment with Mary, presenting a new aspect of the mystery of the Blessed Mother of God every day;

• to maintain the Rosary for the World website, a worldwide prayer network with 4,000 members and 18,000 prayer intentions submitted each month;

• to maintain a Facebook page

• and to launch other projects (e.g. Aleteia and Hozana).

Marie de Nazareth exists thanks to a work team of 22 people (volunteers, semi-volunteers, contractors and employees), the support of 15,000 donors (in 2019) and 400,000 users.

Additionally, Marie de Nazareth is gradually publishing its online content and services in English, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish and Portuguese.

Marie de Nazareth is for everyone

The Association operates in a "Catholic ecumenical" spirit, meaning that it always seeks to act in collaboration with the competent Catholic leadership, online and within each diocese, in a spirit of unity with other Christian denominations. The last popes have often repeated that the Catholic Church is engaged in ecumenical dialogue in an "irrevocable" and "irreversible" way and that the Church promotes a spirit of peace and dialogue with all men and women of good will.

Marie de Nazareth is a non-profit organization funded entirely by donations

Marie de Nazareth is a service freely available to all its users. It exists only through the generosity of about 15,000 donors (in 2019). We are immensely grateful for their support, which makes it possible to not have to charge for any of our services.

If you would like to donate and support our mission to “make Mary known and loved,” click here.

"It was through the Blessed Virgin Mary that Jesus came into the world, and it is also through her that he must reign in the world." (Saint Louis de Montfort - Treatise on the True Devotion to Mary, n.1).

This idea is at the foundation of Marie de Nazareth’s mission: to make Mary known and loved is an essential condition for Jesus to be better understood, known and loved too. The Virgin Mary spoke marvelously of God and of His Mercy through her life, her heart, and her messages:

"Mary has been unknown until now, and that is one of the reasons why Jesus Christ is not known as he must be. If then, as is certain, the knowledge and the kingdom of Jesus Christ must come into the world, it can only be as a necessary consequence of the knowledge and reign of Mary. She who first gave him to the world will establish his kingdom in the world." (n.13).

This last part constitutes a true prophecy for our times.

Mary is the secret

Saint Louis de Montfort wrote a second book: The Secret of Mary, where he reveals why Mary has long remained hidden and why the time has come to totally rely on her by telling her "I am all yours, O Mary!" This motto was chosen by Pope Saint John Paul II because his call and spirituality were identical to St Louis de Montfort: Totus tuus!" means that we want to give ourselves completely to Mary so as to better belong to Christ!

The goal is to imitate Jesus Christ, who started by being a little child depending entirely on Mary from the moment of his Incarnation in Nazareth.

Nazareth est la source

Nazareth is unique place in the world. This city was chosen from all eternity by the Creator to enter his Creation, through Mary, the mother he chose from himself and whom he gave us from the Cross. It was there that everything began, with Joseph, chosen as the husband of the Mother of God and Jesus’ future adoptive father. In Nazareth, Jesus grew up next to Mary and Joseph, and we are called to imitate him, to make the Holy Family of Nazareth and God's plan of salvation for humankind, which leads us to eternal joy, known and loved.

Unity is the key

In Mary, at Nazareth, Heaven entered in communion with the earth: the "yes" of Mary, servant of the Lord, united with the "yes" of the Son of God who accepted the Incarnation to establish the new and eternal Covenant between God and man, was reinforced by Joseph’s “yes” to form the Holy Family. Man was made in the image of God, who is unity in the diversity of the three divine persons, and Christ likewise prayed for the unity of his disciples "so that the world may believe" (Jn 17:21). Divine love requires that its messengers and witnesses put into practice the goodness, benevolence and unity that all have their source in God, and the search for Christian unity is therefore a very important call for our time, and a condition for success in the New Evangelization.

Mary, Nazareth and Unity: these are the three sources and deep motivations that animate all those involved in the Marie de Nazareth projects, whether through prayer, donations, or giving time and talents.

The Marie de Nazareth Association was a fruit of the Pilgrim Virgin Prayer Movement, initiated by the Confraternity of Our Lady of France from 1995 - 2000.

This prayer movement, intended as a spiritual preparation with Mary for the Great Jubilee of the year 2000—a "New Advent"—ended with the Night of Peace organized near Bethlehem in the Shepherds' Field, on the occasion of the opening of the Holy Doors of Rome and Bethlehem.

After this memorable vigil the founders got the idea to build the International Mary of Nazareth Center and, in 2001, to create the Marie de Nazareth Association in France, which has since launched many more projects.

What we’ve done so far:

2004: Creation, production and distribution of the "Hail Mary" Image Festival

2006: Launch of “A Moment with Mary,” our daily meditation sent by email

2010: Creation of the Foundation for Evangelization through the Media (FEM)

2011: Launch of the Aleteia website

March 25, 2011: Inauguration of the International Mary of Nazareth Center (CIMDN)

2013: Creation of the MDN YouTube Channel

2014: Launch of Hozana, a participative prayer network

2015: Launch of Aleteia "Questions de fonds" (Basic Questions) in French

2016: Creation of "Our History with Mary" in French

2017: Creation of a website on the 30 most important prophecies