Title: Jean-Claude Courveille
Content:  Jean-Claude Courveille (15 May 1787 – 15 September 1866) was a Catholic priest who took the initiative of establishing the Marists, or Society of Mary, of which he was the first superior general. Following a scandal, he retired to Cistercian abbey of Notre-Dame of Aiguebelle, then Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye and finally to the Benedictine Solesmes Abbey, where he died.
Title: Jean-Claude Courveille
Content:  Guyardin, who had been sent by the National Convention to the department of Haute-Loire. Despite this, in 1809 Courveille went on a pilgrimage to the cathedral of Le Puy-en-Velay. He said he was cured of his blindness by means of the Virgin and decided, in thanksgiving, to devote himself to the service of Mary. His historians have noted that when he spoke of the Virgin all his listeners fell under his charm. Courveille entered the minor seminary of Verrières-en-Forez. There he had as classmate Marcellin Champagnat. He then continued his studies of Latin at the home of his maternal uncle, Mathieu Beynieux, then 
Title: Jean-Claude Courveille
Content:  Mans, where the bishop, Jean-Baptiste Bouvier, considered him a "zealous and virtuous priest". There he entered into relations with Prosper Guéranger, a Benedictine, who had restored Solesmes Abbey in 1833. On 27 August 1836 Courveille took the habit there, and on 21 March 1838, at the age of 51, Dom Courveille made monastic profession. Charged for two years (1839–1840) with the lay brothers of the abbey, he had to abandon any responsibility in 1860, crippled and paralyzed in his hands by gout. Dom Jean-Claude Courville lived for six more years, and died on 15 September 1866, aged 79 years.
Title: Jean-Claude Colin
Content:  priesthood. He was twenty-three years old. Here he met with Jean-Claude Courveille. Towards the end of 1814 Jean-Claude Courveille, who had been a student in another seminary, transferred to Saint Irenaeus. His diocese had been suppressed and merged into Lyon. Courveille had been cured of semi-blindness after prayer to Our Lady of Le Puy and in gratitude had the inspiration and inner conviction that just as there had arisen at the time of the Reformation a Society dedicated to Jesus, the Jesuits, so at this time of Revolution there could be a Society dedicated to Mary whose members would call themselves Marists. Courveille recruited a group 
Title: Jean-Claude Courveille
Content:  Jean-Claude Courveille was the son of Marguerite Beynieux and Claude Courveille, a merchant of Usson-en-Forez. He was born in this town on 15 May 1787. During the French Revolution his parents, devout Catholics, hid in their house a statue of the Virgin that was venerated in the village as "Our Lady of Chambriac" and was said to have miraculous powers. The boy suffered from smallpox in 1797, and injury to his cornea made him half-blind. He lost his father in 1805. The statue of Our Lady of Le Puy-en-Velay in Le Puy Cathedral was burned during the revolution on 8 June 1794 by 
Title: Jean-Claude Courveille
Content:  Courveille did not stay in Aiguebelle. He preferred to retire with his Marist Sisters of Saint-Clair-du-Rhône, after Colin had refused to receive him in Belley. His de facto exclusion did not make Father Courveille renounce his mission as founder of the Society of Mary. He set his sights on the ancient abbey of Saint-Antoine in the Isère to establish a new group with the support of the Bishop of Grenoble, Philibert de Bruillard, and of Jules de Calvières, prefect of Isère. Courveille bought a part of the abbey for 60,000 francs and was joined by some Brothers who left the 
Title: Jean-Claude Courveille
Content:  The ordination of Courveille, Champagnat and Colin took place on 22 July 1816. The next day they and nine other companions climbed the hill to the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière to celebrate their first Mass. There the twelve priests made a solemn commitment to devote themselves to the Virgin and to found a Society of Mary. They also agreed to "serve the Church in the form of the most diverse commitments." Jean-Claude Courville was appointed curate of Verrières-en-Forez, a position he held from 1817, then at Rive-de-Gier where he remained until 1819, when he became pastor of Épercieux-Saint-Paul, a post he left in 1824. It was 
Title: Jean-Claude Courveille
Content:  favor of Champagnat. At the pastoral retreat of 1832, he tried one last approach to the congregation to recover his place. Father Colin told him, "Do you think we are not aware of your behavior?" Courveille took the hint. Rejected by the Society, Courveille decided to lead a hermit's life. He built a hermitage and chapel near the church of Apinac, and in doing so again acquired a great reputation for holiness. But in caring for children his past caught up with him. Convicted of new offenses, he finally left his uncle's parish. In spring 1834 Courveille went to 
Title: Jean-Claude Courveille
Content:  leave to join that of St. Irenaeus of Lyon, as the Concordat had attached his parish of origin to this diocese. The transfer took place at the start of 1813, and Jean-Claude Courville found Marcellin Champagnat again, and made the acquaintance of Jean-Claude-Marie Colin and Jean-Marie Vianney, who had also been admitted to the major seminary of Lyon. He spoke of his projected Society of Mary to Colin and Champagnat. "His mystique was curiously also subservient to the politics of the moment: he naively believed that Louis XVIII of France would be a great Marist, even the miracle worker of Notre Dame."
Title: Jean-Claude Courveille
Content:  father Director of the Little Brothers of Mary". He praised the special rule of the Trappists who had received him and the harsh discipline imposed by their superior, saying he wanted to retire there. As Louis-Laurent notes "His repressed sentimentality changed into a more and more exaggerated severity and a craving for tyrannical authority, as if taking an unhealthy pleasure in contemplating those who fought against the impossible." Champagnat and Terraillon could not agree whether to accept Courveille's resignation. The next day Jean-Claude Colin arrived. He sided with Champagnat in preferring to refuse it. Étienne Terraillon again gave his view 

Question: What is the religion of Jean-Claude Courveille?
Answer: Catholic Church.
Roman Catholic Church.
Church.
Roman Apostolic Catholic Church.