by Sister Susan Marie | May 5, 2015 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
We continue our series about the saintly Sisters of the Nantes, France Visitation Monastery. Yvonne Justeau was born in 1883. In 1886,her father, Mr. Justeau had to go his properties in the colonies, leaving Yvonne age 3 and her younger brother Lucien to maternal...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 12, 2015 | Events, Museum of the Visitation, Saintly Visitandines, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Year of Consecrated Life
We, the Visitandines of Moulins, is the title of the new exposition highlighting 400 years of the Visitation Order in the city of Moulins, France. Founded in 1616, this Visitandine community was the place where Visitation’s Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal, spent...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 8, 2015 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
We continue our series from our Nantes Visitation Monastery about the holy Visitandines who lived there. This month we share the life of Sister Marie-Antoine Poyas. Juliet was born into a peasant family of Deux-Sèvres, 29 August 1883. As a widow, her mother took in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 22, 2015 | Events, Holy Year of Mercy, Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
Pope Francis has announced a Holy Year of Mercy to begin in December 2015. We shared this information and also some perspectives on St. Francis de Sales’ understanding of mercy in a previous post....
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 5, 2015 | LENT, Saintly Visitandines
This week’s meditation takes the form of the Chaplet of the Holy Wounds, a devotional that Our Lord encouraged Sister Mary Martha Chambon VHM, a mystic of the Order, to say and share. On a certain Sunday in Lent, her Beloved Lord came to her and said,”...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 3, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines
This month we continue with our series about the Mystics of Visitation Monastery of Nantes, France. Sister Angelique Claude Garnier is symbolized by the violet. She entered the Visitation Monastery at the age of 17, in 1654. Her vocation was rooted in spiritual and...