by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 17, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
How did St Jane and St Vincentarrange the spiritualk direction sessions together? Even when the requirements of new houses called Jane away from Paris for a time, she failed not to communicate with her director by letter ; and several of these touch ing memorials of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 16, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
After St./ Francis de Sales died in 1622, St Vincent de Piul became St. Jane’s spiritual director. How had this come to be? It was in the year 1622 tliat Vincent accepted the office of spiritual director to the nuns of the Order of the Visitation of St. Mary at...
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 | Aug 4, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
August 3, 1903 : Death of Sister Marie du Sacré-Cœur Bernaud (Religious of the Visitation and founder of the Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart) at the Monastery of the Visitation of Bourg-en-Bresse. She promises the Honor Guards that from up there she will...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 16, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation History
This new Spanish book, written by Salesian Don Eugenio Alburquerque Frutos, a devotee and scholar of the figure of the Savoyard saint for almost 20 years, claims to be a definitive biography of this Doctor of the Church, Bishop and Founder of the Visitation Order....
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 8, 2021 | Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
A new Polish book entitled Panie Lutosławskie” by Tomasza Szymańskiego features, among other women, a Visitandine of Warsaw, Mother Maria Klaudia Niklewiczówna VSM. This is her story. Mother Maria Klaudia Niklewiczówna VSM was born in Warsaw on December 23, 1918, the...