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,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 9, 2012 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Visitation Saints
We’re beginning a new series to acquaint you with the holy Vistandines who are on their way to formal beatification or canonization but are not well known among the faithful. Why choose Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis to begin the series? Because her close...