How did Father Joseph Simler’s twenty-nine-year Generalate complete Blessed William Joseph Chaminade’s foundational vision? How did Simler, the fourth Superior General, also shape the direction of the Society of Mary in an era of increased government control that threatened the very survival of the religious congregation in France at the start of the twentieth century? To find out, read Marianist Father Antonio Gascón Aranda’s second volume of "The General History of the Society of Mary: Generalate of Father Joseph Simler: An International Congregation of Pontifical Right (1873-1905)."