by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 2, 2015 | Events, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation News
Thursday, July 2 is marked as the day that the beatification process opened for Leonie Martin, a Visitation Nun who died in 1941 at the age of 78 and sibling of the Carmelite Saint Therese of Lisieux. Bishop Boulanger of Bayeux and Lisieux opened the beatification...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 2, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation Saints
This month’s focus is on a Sister of Nantes France who was very devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Sister Marie Albertine Fournier. Born in Nantes in 1801, soon death robbed her of her father and poverty settled in the family. Overcome with grief and anguish,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 25, 2015 | Events, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Year of Consecrated Life
The process will be opened on the 115th anniversary of Leonie’s religious profession as Sister Francoise Therese in the chapel where she made her vows as a Visitation nun on July 2, 1900. Mgr Jean-Claude Boulanger, bishop of Bayeux and Lisieux, will preside at...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 11, 2015 | Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus will be observed on Friday June 12 th this year. The Visitation Order was instrumental, through its St. Margaret Mary, in establishing this Feast. But long before her entrance into the monastery of Paray le Monial, our Holy...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 28, 2015 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality
Let this beautiful month of June dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus be for all the guards of honor, and all their relatives, a source of joy, love and peace! Selfishness … or charity! “Behold this Heart which has so loved men, that it has spared nothing,...
by Sister Susan Marie | May 8, 2015 | Events, Museum of the Visitation, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Year of Consecrated Life
And the local coverage is superb! The La Montagne newspaper reports (Read the article in French): The 2015 exhibition of the Museum of the Visitation breaks tradition from those of the previous exhibitions: the embroidered banners and other priestly vestments give way...