by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 22, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Vis Alum, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Marie Blanche de Grignan was the great-great granddaughter of the Visitation Order’s Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal, and the granddaughter of the famous letter writer, Madame Sevigne. Her mother Francoise, married to François Adhémar de Monteil, comte de...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 20, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Who was this Marie-Blanche, Visitandine that was listed on the genealogical chart at the Gallery House in Annecy, the Visitation Order’s first Monastery? The chart showed that: St. Jane de Chantal’s son Celse Benigne had a daughter, Marie de Rabutin...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 19, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
The Gallery House is the first community that the Visitation Order settled in with the original Foundresses and still exists today, owned by the Sisters of St. Joseph, where various rooms are preserved to tell the story of St. Jane de Chantal and the Founding Sisters....
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 18, 2018 | St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
A Chart on the Wall of the Gallery House…. Unknown Visitandines who were descendants of Visitation’s Foundress, St. Jane A name- Marie-Blanche and another name- Diana (Sr Jacqueline Therese) This new short series will follow the trail of a curious American...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 14, 2018 | Events, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
Visitation Sisters at our “Holy Source” in France have a new “welcoming ministry” to mothers who need a day of reflection, or a pause and break. “It’s a day for women to feel pampered, to put down their bags and their armor, and let...
by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 15, 2018 | Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
After 25 years, the construction of the monastery of the Visitation of Santa María, in Río Cuarto, began. The diocesan bishop, Monsignor Adolfo Uriona FDP, celebrated a Mass on Saturday, January 20, on the premises where the first stage of construction began, located...