on Sunday June 23, 2019, from 1030AM until 5PM, to celebrate its 400th anniversary!
Through the corridors of the building, posters and maps retrace the history of the Order and its nuns. Also on display are engraved plaques of the Sacred Heart, pewter pots made by the sisters, a shoe-making tool, an eighteenth-century book of remedies, and other interesting items.
Located at 68 avenue Denfert-Rochereau, our Visitation contemplative monastery is the last in the heart of the capital of France. Fifteen Visitandines, aged 30 to 98, live and work there. They also welcome about thirty young girls in their student home.
Sister Marie-Reine entered the monastery in 1976, at the age of 23, as a student in engineering school living at home, before becoming a Visitandine two years later. “Today we carry the city in prayer, ” she summarizes. The monastery is a place of listening where we offer women the opportunity to make retreats. “
In addition, until December 22, the exhibition “The Paris of the Visitandines” presents at the museum of the Visitation of Moulins (Alliers) a collection of 200 objets d’art drawn from the heritage of the Visitation of Paris.
For the first time, the public will be able to discover the history of the Capital seen by the Visitandines. And this, through their own creations and objects related to the spiritual life of the nuns who live together cloisteredfrom the world.
It was the sisters of Paris who requested that this exhibition be held in 2019, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the creation of the first monastery in the Capital, nine years after the foundation of their Order in Annecy by Saint Jeanne de Chantal and St. Francis de Sales.
Because the nuns could not organize the exhibition in Paris, they went to the Museum of the Visitation of Moulins, where the third monastery of the Order was founded in 1616 and where St. Jeanne de Chantal died in 1641.
Among the works presented: an ivory sculpture donated by Pope Paul V, a painting by Jean Restout, a troubadour clock turned into a reliquary dating from 1830, alabaster statues, an ivory chalice, pieces of goldsmith Empire and Restoration, a shot fired on the monastery during the taking of the Bastille …
If you are in Paris this Sunday, or Moulins throughout 2019, please feel welcome to visit the Sisters in person or through art!