by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 16, 2012 | Visitation Saints
Part 3 Sister Mary de Sales is Named Superior of the Monastery of Troyes The Monastery of the Visitation in Troyes France was founded in 1631. During the Revolution of 1789 the Sisters were forced to leave their enclosure and seek shelter in different houses of that...
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 | 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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 28, 2011 | Spiritual Directory, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation Saints
Fr. Louis Brisson, OSFS, co-founder of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales was born on June 23, 1817, in Plancy, France, the only child of Toussaint and Savine Brisson. He was educated by a local priest who had a large library. Louis read everything; he had a...