by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 17, 2012 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation News, Visitation Saints
International Symposium on Fr. Brisson’s Ministry and Spirituality Held in conjunction with his beatification and sponsored by the International Commission for Salesian Studies (ICSS) 24-25 September 2012, Motherhouse of the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 16, 2012 | Events, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
From our Sisters in Troyes: Beatification, Saturday,September 22, of the Venerable Father Louis Brisson (1817-1908), Founder of the Oblates and Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales, under the inspiration of our Venerable Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, chaplain and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 4, 2012 | Events, Visitation Saints
The French newspaper, Le Croix, reported on the August 29th 2012 meeting of Bishops in Paris at which the Bishop of Troyes, Bl Brisson’s home town, spoke on the upcoming beatification of Venerable Louis Brisson....
by Sister Susan Marie | Sep 1, 2012 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Sister Marie Angelique Millet VHM Sister Marie Angelique Millet (1879-1944) born Charlotte, was Professed in the Visitation Monastery of Caen France, the very same community that St. Therese’s Sister Leonie was a member of and in fact, they were contemporaries! Sr...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 21, 2012 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
With Venerable Louis Brisson’s beatification approaching, now merely a month away, we are offering some selections from his conferences to develop our Salesian spirit. Fr. Brisson, Founder of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, was an energetic preacher, teacher...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 1, 2012 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation Saints
Sister Benigna Consolata Ferrero, 1885-1915 This Italian Visitandine did not have a long life; her vocation in the Monastery only lasted nine years, but in those short years she developed, with the grace of God, an intense prayer life, but humbly simple. In giving an...