Community of Saint Martin
Communauté Saint-Martin | |
| Abbreviation | CSM |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1976 |
| Founders | Jean-François Guérin |
| Type | Public clerical association of pontifical right |
| Headquarters | Évron, France |
| Membership |
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general moderator | Paul Préaux |
| Website | https://www.communautesaintmartin.org/ |
The Community of Saint Martin is a Catholic public clerical association of pontifical right, comprising priests and deacons. It was founded in 1976 by Fr Jean-François Guérin, a French priest from the Archdiocese of Tours, under the protection of the Italian cardinal Giuseppe Siri, Archbishop of Genoa. The community focuses on traditionalist liturgy, with its priests wearing cassocks and offering Novus Ordo Mass often in Latin, with Gregorian chant and facing ad orientem.
In 2023, the community included 185 priests and deacons and more than 100 seminarians. 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.