by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 2, 2025 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
2 February: Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, a day of prayer for religious men and women of apostolic life.February 2, 1641: Birth of Saint Claude La Colombière (Jesuit, apostle of devotion to the Sacred Heart and spiritual director of Saint...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 20, 2025 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
4 – Maturity and fruitfulness Testament The little Institute, to reach its full maturity and multiply, will still benefit from the solicitude of its Founders to advance towards its future. Our blessed Father has only four more years to spend here below. Our holy...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 9, 2025 | Visitation History, Visitation News
Meeting with…Sister Marie-Chantal MOTHER SUPERIOR AT THE VISITATION MONASTERY IN VOIRON What is the Visitation Order? Sister Marie-Chantal: It is a religious order created in 1610 François de Sales and Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal who, at a period when there was...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 30, 2024 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Photos & videos, Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
New Video Reveals Mystery of the Seven Spanish Martyrs of the Visitation One hundred years ago, anti-Catholic sentiment in Spain was high, and nearly 8,000 martyrs suffered for their faith. Among them were seven nuns of the Visitation Order from Madrid, now known as...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 26, 2024 | Guard of Honor, Visitation History
Life of Sister Marie du Sacré Cœur Bernaud (continued) To prepare for the international meeting of the Guards of Honor in Bourg-en-Bresse, the cradle of the work, which is also part of the Jubilee of the 350th anniversary of the Apparitions of Jesus to Saint...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 16, 2024 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History
1617 and 1618 1617 was a year marked for our holy Founders by painful personal trials, the difficulties in Moulins and those of the construction of the monastery continued, while the steps in Rome for the transformation of the Institute languished. Divine pedagogy...