by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 31, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
The Feast of the Foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, our Holy Mother, is celebrated on August 12. This year we will present a “novena” to spiritually prepare for the Feast, in a slightly different form. Meditations taken from a talk by a...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 30, 2022 | Guard of Honor, Sacred Heart, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History
August 3, 1903: Birth in Heaven of Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud (Nun of the Visitation and founder of the Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) at the Monastery of the Visitation of Bourg-en-Bresse. She promises the Honor Guards that from up there...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 18, 2022 | Events, Photos & videos, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
This symposium is part of the 4th Centenary of the death of Saint Francis de Sales. 1622-2022. 400 years after his death, these “Interviews of Saint Germain” will take place in Talloires between the Abbey which once preoccupied François de Sales and the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 18, 2022 | St. Francis de Sales, Visitation History
translated by website 1Presenting St. Francis de Sales as an heir to Erasmian thought is not a new thing: in a fundamental article, published for more than forty years, L.-E. Halkin showed that Erasmus’ legacy was maintained throughout the century following his...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 15, 2022 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
from our Monastery of la Visitation du Mans SUMMARY OF THE LIFE AND VIRTUES OF OUR DEAR SISTER Marie Dosithée GUERIN 1829-1877 Deceased in this Convent of the Visitation Sainte-Marie du Mans, February 24th, 1877, 48 years old, 17 years as professed at the rank of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 8, 2022 | Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History
on Mother Maria Amata Fazio Itala Fazio was born in Palermo on June 2, 1915. Her baptismal name, clearly patriotic in the climate of the First World War, became in religion Maria Amata, a name that we all remember with filial reference and simply: Mother Amata. It was...