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:...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 27, 2021 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
Jesus tells us that he will recognize before his Father only those who have recognized and confessed him before men. Certainly, He knew that it would cost us a lot, that we would have to make this profession of faith in the face of a hostile and corrupt generation,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 15, 2020 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
When St. Francis de Sales spoke of martyrdom, he probably had no idea that nearly 400 years later Sisters of the Order he founded would have the privilege of dying for their faith. But indeed this did happen to seven Spanish Vistandines in 1936, who were beatified in...