by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 25, 2018 | St. Jane de Chantal
A high school student in our Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School made an insightful connection to the Visitation order’s Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal, and victims of gun violence. This student, Eleanor, reflected ” …over 400 years ago, in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 24, 2018 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
A generation closer to our Foundress, St Jane de Chantal, than Marie-Blanche de Grignan (Sr Francoise Marie, Visitandine) was St. Jane’s great granddaughter, Diane, whose grandmother was Francoise, the only child of St. Jane to survive her. This granddaughter,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 22, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Vis Alum, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Marie Blanche de Grignan was the great-great granddaughter of the Visitation Order’s Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal, and the granddaughter of the famous letter writer, Madame Sevigne. Her mother Francoise, married to François Adhémar de Monteil, comte de...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 20, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Who was this Marie-Blanche, Visitandine that was listed on the genealogical chart at the Gallery House in Annecy, the Visitation Order’s first Monastery? The chart showed that: St. Jane de Chantal’s son Celse Benigne had a daughter, Marie de Rabutin...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 18, 2018 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
A Chart on the Wall of the Gallery House…. Unknown Visitandines who were descendants of Visitation’s Foundress, St. Jane A name- Marie-Blanche and another name- Diana (Sr Jacqueline Therese) This new short series will follow the trail of a curious American...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 8, 2017 | Advent, St. Jane de Chantal
Advent with St. Jane-Day 8and 9 ” The Son of God, to show us an example, came to humble Himself with an abjection the most admirable which not only can be, but can even be thought of; for you see the God of all Majesty, as it were forgetting and annihilating...