by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 17, 2025 | Visitation History, Visitation News, Vocation news
María Magdalena García Ventura worked for years as a dentist in her country until she entered the Salesian Sisters of San Salvador as a postulant. Years later, stationed in Granada, Spain, she made her perpetual profession on Palm Sunday. “My vocation was a late one,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 4, 2025 | Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
White gratings are the lines that separate the mundane from the sacred world, where Sister Luz Helena Barco Fonseca lives within the Monastery of the Visitation of Santa María, a cloister celebrating its 100th anniversary in Manizales. Sitting in a small reception...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 1, 2025 | Visitation History
March 5, 1604: Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, preaches Lent in Dijon and meets the Baroness de Chantal, it is the starting point of one of the most beautiful spiritual friendships in the history of the Church. He will be able to say: “The Visitation...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 26, 2025 | Visitation History
Today, our celebrated jubilarian can say: “I fought a good fight.” Maria Cecilia, born of Adam, entered the laudable order in the last decade of the last century, which was founded by the amiable saint, the living image of mildness and love,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 25, 2025 | Visitation History
Introduction. A double and compatible call of the Salesians The Jesuit Francisco de Rávago was a true minister of religious and cultural affairs of the Monarchy of Ferdinand VI since he began to spiritually direct the king in 17471. The latter had entrusted him with a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 15, 2025 | Visitation History
If Claude La Colombière was canonized in 1992, it is because he has something special to bring to us today. The links between the message of Jesus in Paray and Saint Claude are essential: We cannot grasp the value of this without referring to what he experienced here...