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 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...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 22, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
As the Church begins its process toward Visitation Sister Francoise Therese’s (Leonie Martin) beatification, many aspects of her life and devotion begin to be known. In addition, the deep relationship of the Carmelite and Visitation Orders in this Martin family...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 14, 2015 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH
Our Visitation Monastery in Nantes France, in its new website, has chosen to honor its Sisters by identifying each one’s spirit with a particular flower as her life story is revealed. The original is in French: here we will translate or paraphrase her life story...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 5, 2015 | Events, Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation Outreach
“On February 8th, the first International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking will be held. The event will coincide with the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, a Sudanese slave who became a Canossian Sister after she was freed. She was...