by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 13, 2012 | Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
Here is an obscure reality that we’d like to share with you: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. responded to a letter from a Visitation Sister back in 1963! Sr. Clare Therese Brandon VHM who went back to God just one year ago in January 2011, was a remarkable religious....
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 13, 2012 | Visitation Saints
Teresa had long felt an interior desire to consecrate herself to God in the cloister. On the 21st of November 1814, the generous young girl quitted the home of her childhood to go where Our Lord called her. She entered the Visitation Monastery of Fribourg,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 11, 2012 | Salesian Spirituality
The Salesian Center for Faith & Culture at DeSales University announces its online course offerings for the 2012 Lenten season. Courses are available to anyone with Internet access for an $80 registration fee. They begin Ash Wednesday and end on Good Friday. ...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 11, 2012 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Visitation Saints
M. Fleury, the good priest, had been for many years Cure of Soyhieres; but, owing to the terrors of the Revolution, he was compelled to remain in close concealment during the daytime, and it was only under cover of the night that he ventured to issue forth from his...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 10, 2012 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Visitation Saints
LIFE OF MOTHER MARY DE SALES CHAPPUIS, OF THE VISITATION OF HOLY MARY CHAPTER I HER BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD Mary Theresa Chappuis was was born at Soyhieres, a little village on the confines of the Swiss Jura, on the sixteenth of June,1793. Like Saint Francis of Sales,...