by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 17, 2022 | Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visitation History, Visitation News
Dear friends, We are entering the season of Lent and we can encourage ourselves with the Lenten antiphon “With our eyes fixed on Jesus Christ, let us enter into the battle of God! » The fight of God is what the sisters of the monasteries of the Visitation in Colombia...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 8, 2021 | Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
A new Polish book entitled Panie Lutosławskie” by Tomasza Szymańskiego features, among other women, a Visitandine of Warsaw, Mother Maria Klaudia Niklewiczówna VSM. This is her story. Mother Maria Klaudia Niklewiczówna VSM was born in Warsaw on December 23, 1918, the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 17, 2021 | Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
Spiritual graces were expected from St Joseph by many Visitandines in our history. Marie-Augustine Bouvard, who died in Paris in 1659, had “confessed to a trusted person that she had received very special graces from him, for the release of some internal...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 16, 2021 | Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
Eleanor Roere was born in Turin on the first day of October in the year 1638, the day on which our worthy Mother de Chantal and her virtuous daughters arrived in this city to establish a Monastery. Does it not seem that the Institute of the Visitation came to receive...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 14, 2021 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History
It should not be believed that devotion to Saint Joseph dates from today. This glorious Patriarch has been honored for a long time, especially in religious communities. We read in the life of Sister Marie-Marguerite de Valbelle de Saint-Symphorien, Visitandine...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 25, 2021 | Monthly Mystic, MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
A wonderful four part series about a Visitandine from Italy was published in an Italian newspaper this past month! You can read the original articles here as well as see the photos and pictures of the Sister and her surroundings: Part 1:...