by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 18, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
The participation of St. Françis de Sales in the promotion of the cult of Saint Joseph highlights the emotional relationship between Jesus and his earthly father On March 17, 1611, St. Françis de Sales evokes this “great Saint, who so often pampered our Savior...
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 | Apr 5, 2021 | Holy Year of Mercy, Visitation History, Visitation News
Every year we have been sharing the various connections between the European Visitation Sisters and the Divine Mercy devotion, painting and St. Faustina, especially from Lithuania and Poland. This year we introduce you to a 100 year old Visitandine in Poland who met...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 31, 2021 | Museum of the Visitation, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
Source:https://www.musee-visitation.eu/publication/fees-des-re/ Waste sorting and eco-packaging are essential. Upcycling – that is, creating new objects from old ones – seems to be a novelty in fashion. In our so-called consumer society, it is sometimes...