by Sister Susan Marie | Feb 1, 2018 | Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
Over the past few years we have shared the stories of several young girls rescued from trafficking in Africa during the 1800’s and placed for safety in Visitation Monasteries. Every year we discover another group of Visitandines who wecomed these children into...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 1, 2017 | Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
December 8, 1602: Episcopal ordination of St. Francis de Sales in the church of his baptism in Torens December 13, 1641: Death of St. Jane de Chantal at the Visitation of Moulins. December 17, 1887: Birth of the Visitandine servant of God Mother Maria-Angelica Alvarez...
by Sister Susan Marie | Nov 28, 2017 | Guard of Honor, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
We have come to the end of the liturgical year and are in the last weeks of this year! All our projects or wishes formulated at the dawn of 2017 may not always have materialized according to our desires and this leaves us with a bitter taste or even some real...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 31, 2017 | Events, Saintly Visitandines, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
November 1, 1720: Monseigneur de Belsunce consecrates the city and the diocese of Marseille to the Sacred Heart November 6, 1672: Religious profession of St. Margaret Mary November 18-23, 1936: martyrdom of our blessed Sisters of Madrid shot in hatred of...
by Sister Susan Marie | Oct 16, 2017 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
The project was born a little over a year ago, in the heart of the parish of Saint-François de Sales (Thorens-Glières, Groisy, Charvonnex, Saint-Martin-Bellevue, Les Ollières). The parish celebrates the 450th anniversary of the birth of the Saint. With gatherings,...