by Sister Susan Marie | May 11, 2024 | Vis Alum, Visitation History, Visitation News
Our Lady of La Salette is the title bestowed on the Virgin Mary after her appearances to young children at La Salette France in the 1840’s. Through her intercession, a Visitandine experienced a miraculous cure, which I shared here. Our Lady of La Salette Cured a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 10, 2024 | Vis Alum
Wanda Olędzka was born in 1861 in Merano (a town in Italy) as the daughter of Władysław and Amelia née Bącewicz. Her life was marked by the cross from her very childhood. Shortly after her birth, she lost her mother. She spent the first years of her life in a boarding...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 20, 2021 | Vis Alum, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
A young Polish woman, Marianna Kossakowska, married a Russian officer with Hungarian roots – Trofim Pawłowicz Pustowojtow. Although this marriage did not please the bride’s family, who cultivated patriotic patterns and did not even have a gram of trust in...
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 | Sep 20, 2014 | Events, Vis Alum, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
Sat, Sept 20th, in Como, Italy, an alum of the Visitation Sisters Boarding School of Como was beatified in the Cathedral there. Beatification Mass video: Blessed Mother Giovannina Franchi was the Foundress of the Congregation, Congregazione delle Suore Infermiere...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 1, 2011 | Vis Alum, Visitation News
On Saturday July 30th Mrs. Alicia Vernazzani, an Alum of the Visitation Academy in Brooklyn, had the rare privilege of an appointment to visit the Visitation Sisters in the Vatican, with her husband and two young children. The visit was “beyond words”,...