by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 2, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Visitation Saints
The Life of the Venerable Maria Margit Bogner, a Religious of the Visitation of Holy Mary of Erd, Hungary 1905–1933 A Violet in the Odor of Sanctity Translated from the Spanish by a Visitandine Declared venerable June 28, 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI Spanish edition by...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 8, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Visitation Saints
While St. Margaret Mary was the privileged recipient of the revelation by Jesus Christ of His Sacred Heart, several other Vistandines of her era were also inspired through her influence to a great and apostolic sharing of the devotion to the Love of Jesus. One such...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 31, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Mother Carmela Aprile We have a most unique story to unfold about this contemporary mystic, her relationships to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Visitation Monastery of Rosolini! Here is a woman, born in 1878 in poverty, widowed young, who buys an image of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 2, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Therese Putigny was born March 22 1803 in Eply, a village not far from the Metz Visitation. Her father was an honest farmer and her mother a model woman of virtue. At the young age of 4, Therese already had a great gift of prayer, though carrying the normal faults of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 1, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Sister Marie Catherine Putigny, VHM Visitandine of Metz Part 1 The outstanding uniqueness of this lay Sister of the Metz, France Visitation Monastery was her devotion to the Sacred Humanity of Jesus. “One day, whilst she was praying in the tribune, she thought...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 3, 2013 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
What is a mystic? Can a contemplative religious nun who is faithful to her vocation and life of prayer be considered a “mystic” in some ways? See what you think after reading the extraordinary life of the Visitation Nun who was Saint Therese of...