Church of the Holy Name of Mary
(Église du Saint-Nom-de-Marie),
St. Marie-de-Beauce, Quebec, Canada.
Photo Credit: Pat Dufour.
Illustration: LITURGICAL ARTS JOURNAL
More photos in the Article by Shawn Tribe
in LITURGICAL ARTS JOURNAL, available
22 August, 2026
Neuschwanstein Castle, Schwangau, Bavaria, Germany. King Ludwig II Of Bavaria’s Creation. (Part Eight).
Photo: 31 July 2013.
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The Throne Hall, Neuschwanstein Castle.
Photograph by Joseph Albert 1886.
Postcard published 1890 - 1900.
Detroit Publishing Co. Print No. 17479.
Date: 1886.
Source:
Photochrom from Photoglob AG Zürich (PZ, 17479); Views of Germany in the Photochrom Print Collection. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.00180.
Author: Josef Albert (1825–1886).
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Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.
The administrators of King Ludwig’s estate managed to balance the construction debts by 1899.[42]
From then until World War I, Neuschwanstein was a stable and lucrative source of revenue for the House of Wittelsbach, and King Ludwig’s Castles were probably the single largest income source earned by the Bavarian Royal Family in the last years prior to 1914.
To guarantee a smooth course of visits, some rooms and the Court buildings were finished first. Initially, the visitors were allowed to move freely in the Palace, causing the furniture to wear quickly.
Photochrom print of the front of Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany, taken as few as ten years after the completion of the Castle.
Un photochrome du château de Neuschwanstein, en Bavière (Allemagne). Image prise 10 ans environ après la fin de la construction du château. Le procédé photochrome est un procédé de colorisation des clichés noir et blanc utilisant des procédés lithographiques (article en Anglais)
Print no. “17162”.
Фотохромна снимка на замъка Нойшванщайн
в Бавария, Германия, направена десет години
след построяването му.
Date: 1890 - 1905.
Source: Original image: Photochrom print (colour photo lithograph). Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-00179 from Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Photochrom Prints Collection.
Author: Unknown.
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When Bavaria became a Republic in 1918, the Government socialised the Civil List. The resulting dispute with the House of Wittelsbach led to a split in 1923: King Ludwig’s Palaces, including Neuschwanstein, fell to the State and are now managed by the Bavarian Palace Department, a division of the Bavarian Finance Ministry.
Nearby Hohenschwangau Castle fell to the Wittelsbach Compensation Fund [de] (Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds), whose revenues go to the House of Wittelsbach.[43]
The visitor numbers continued to rise, reaching 200,000 in 1939.[43]
Due to its secluded and strategically unimportant location, the Palace survived the destruction of the two World Wars.
Monuments Men recovering stolen art from
Neuschwanstein Castle towards the end of World War II.
Date: 24 June 2017.
Source: https://www.flickr.com/
Author: BM.
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Until 1944, it served as a depot for Nazi plunder that was taken from France by the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Institute for the Occupied Territories (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg für die besetzten Gebiete), a sub-organisation of the Nazi Party.[44]
The Castle was used to catalogue the Works of Art. After World War II, thirty-nine photo albums were found in the Palace documenting the scale of the art seizures. The albums are now stored in the United States National Archives.[45]
PART NINE FOLLOWS.
Westminster. Rouen. Chinon. Poitiers. The Four Centres Of Power For Henry II Plantagenet. Mediæval King Of England 1154 – 1189. Friend And Foe Of Thomas à Becket. (Part Seven).
Soundtrack from Simon Schama’s
“A History of Britain”,
which included King Henry II's reign.
Sung by Emma Kirkby (Soprano)
Music by John Harle.
Available on YouTube
Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.
It has been the home of the permanent institutions of England’s government, continuously since about 1200 (High Middle Ages’ Plantagenet) and is now the Seat of British government.
Westminster Abbey.
Photo: 26 May 2013.
Source: Own work.
Author: Σπάρτακος.
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Westminster Abbey, formally titled “the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster”, is a large, mainly Gothic, Abbey Church in the City of Westminster, London, just to the West of the Palace of Westminster.
It is one of The United Kingdom’s most notable Religious buildings and the Traditional place of Coronation and Burial Site for English, and, later, British, Monarchs.
Between 1540 and 1556, the Abbey had the status of a Cathedral. Since 1560, however, the building is no longer an Abbey, nor a Cathedral, having instead the status of a Church of England “Royal Peculiar” — a Church responsible directly to the Sovereign. The building is the original Abbey Church.
According to a Tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a Church was Founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the 7th-Century A.D. at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London. Construction of the present Church began in 1245, on the orders of King Henry III.
Canterbury Cathedral.
Site of the murder of Thomas à Becket.
Photo: 2006.
Source: http://www.wyrdlight.com
Author: Antony McCallum
Attribution: WyrdLight.com.
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Since 1066, when Harold Godwinson and William the Conqueror were Crowned, the Coronations of English and British Monarchs have been held there.
There have been at least sixteen Royal Weddings at the Abbey since 1100. Two were of Reigning Monarchs (Henry I and Richard II), although, before 1919, there had been none for some 500 years.
PART EIGHT FOLLOWS.
Saint Timothy. Saint Hippolytus. Saint Symphorian. Martyrs. Feast Day 22 August. Red Vestments.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
Saint Timothy.
Saint Hippolytus.
Saint Symphorian.
Martyrs.
Feast Day 22 August.
Simple.
Red Vestments.
English: Martyrdom of Saint-Symphorian.
Français: Le Martyre de Saint-Symphorien.
Artist: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867).
Date: 1824-1834.
Current location: Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun.
Source/Photographer: Centre national des arts plastiques
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Timothy of Antioch came to Rome in 310 A.D. and was Martyred in 311 A.D. He was cruelly beaten and quicklime was sprinkled over his torn flesh. At last, he was beheaded.
Also on 22 August, at Ostia, Italy, Hippolytus, Bishop of Porto, was thrown into a hole filled with water and received The Crown of Martyrdom about 225 A.D.
Again on 22 August, about 180 A.D., under the reign of Emperor Aurelian, Symphorian, who was still a young man, was beheaded at Autun. While he went to execution, his mother said to him: "My son, my son, remember Eternal Life; look up to Heaven and see The One Who reigns there; life is not taken from thee, it is exchanged for a better one."
Mass: Salus autem.
The Octave Of The Assumption. 22 August.
English: The Assumption of The Virgin Mary.
Deutsch: Maria Himmelfahrt.
Hochaltar für St. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venedig.
Français: L’Assomption de la Vierge.
Artist: Titian (1490–1576).
Date: 1516-1518.
Current location:
Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project:
10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.
DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202.
Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
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By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 13.
Time After Pentecost.
Book IV.
He alone who could understand Mary’s holiness could appreciate her Glory. But Wisdom, Who provided over the formation of the abyss, has not revealed to us the depth of that Ocean, beside which all the virtues of the Just and all the Graces lavished upon them are but streamlets.
Nevertheless, the immensity of Grace and Merit, whereby the Blessed Virgin’s supernatural perfection stands quite apart from all others, gives us a right to conclude that she has an equal super-eminence in Glory, which is always proportioned to the Sanctity of the Elect.
Whereas all the other predestined of our Race are placed among the various ranks of the celestial hierarchy, the Holy Mother of God is exalted above all the Choirs, forming by herself a distinct Order, a new Heaven, where the harmonies of Angels and Saints are far surpassed.
In Mary, God is more Glorified, better known, more loved, than in all the rest of the Universe.
On this ground, alone, according to the order of creative Providence, which subordinates the less to the more perfect, Mary is entitled to be Queen of Earth and Heaven.
In this sense, it is for her, next to the Man-God, that the World exists. The great theologian, Cardinal de Lugo, explaining the words of the Saints on this subject, dares to say: “Just as, creating all things in His complacency for His Christ, God made Him the end of creatures; so, with due proportion, we may say He drew the rest of the World out of nothing, through the love of the Virgin Mother, so that she, too, might thus be justly called the end of all things.”
As Mother of God, and at the same time His First-Born, she had a Right and Title over His Goods; as Bride, she ought to share His Crown.
“The Glorious Virgin”, says Saint Bernardine of Siena, “has as many subjects as the Blessed Trinity has. Every creature, whatever be its rank in creation, spiritual as the Angels, rational as man, material as the Heavenly bodies or the elements, Heaven and Earth, the reprobate and the Blessed, all that springs from the power of God, is subject to The Virgin.
For He Who is The Son of God and of The Blessed Virgin, wishing, so to say, to make His Mother’s principality in some sort equal to His Father’s. became, God as He is, the servant of Mary.
If, then, it be true to say that everyone, even The Virgin, obeys God, we may also convert the proposition, and affirm that everyone, even God, obeys The Virgin”.
The empire of Eternal Wisdom comprises, so The Holy Spirit tells us, the Heavens, the Earth, and the abyss; The same, then, is the appanage of Mary on this her Coronation Day.
Like the Divine Wisdom to Whom she gave Flesh, she may glory in God. He Whose magnificence she once chanted today exalts her humility.
She who is Blessed above all others has become the honour of her people, the admiration of the Saints, the Glory of the armies of The Most High.
Together with the Spouse, let her, in her beauty, march to victory; let her triumph over the hearts of the mighty and the lowly. The giving of the World’s sceptre into her hands is no mere honour void of reality: From this day forward, she commands and fights, protects The Church, defends its head, upholds the ranks of the Sacred Militia, raises up Saints, directs Apostles, enlightens Doctors, exterminates heresy, crushes Hell.
Let us hail our Queen, let us sing her mighty deeds; let us be docile to her; above all, let us love her and trust in her love.
Let us not fear that, amidst the great interests of the spreading of God’s Kingdom, she will forget our littleness or our miseries.
She knows all that takes place in the obscurest corners, in the furthest limits of her immense domain. From her Title of “Universal Cause” under The Lord is rightly deduced the universality of her providence; and the masters of doctrine show us Mary in Glory sharing in the science called “Of Vision”, whereby all that is, has been, or is to be, is present before God.
On the other hand, we must believe that her Charity could not possibly be defective: As her love of God surpasses the love of all the Elect, so the tenderness of all mothers united, centred upon an only child, is nothing to the love wherewith Mary surrounds the least, the most forgotten, the most neglected of all the children of God, who are her children, too.
She forestalls them in her solicitude, listens at all times to their humble Prayers, pursues them in their guilty flights, sustains their weakness, compassionates their ills, whether of body or of Soul, sheds upon all men the Heavenly favours whereof she is the Treasury.
Let us, then, say to her, in the words of one of her great servants: “O Most Holy Mother of God, who hast beautified Heaven and Earth, in leaving this World thou hast not abandoned man.
“Here below thou didst live in Heaven; from Heaven thou conversest with us. Thrice happy those who contemplated thee and lived with the Mother of Life !
But in the same way as thou didst dwell in the flesh with them of the first age, thou now dwellest with us Spiritually. We hear they voice; and all our voices reach thine ear; and thy continual protection over us makes thy presence evident.
Thou dost visit us; thine eye is upon us all; and although our eyes cannot see thee, O Most Holy One, yet thou art in the midst of us, showing thyself in various ways to whomever is worthy.
Thy Immaculate Body, come forth from the tomb, hinders not the immaterial power, the most pure activity of that Spirit of thine, which being inseparable from The Holy Ghost, breathes also where it wills.
O Mother of God, receive the grateful homage of our joy, and speak for thy children to Him Who has Glorified thee: Whatsoever thou askest of Him, He will accomplish it by His Divine Power; may He be Blessed for ever !”
21 August, 2026
Cathedral And Metropolitan Church Of Saint Stephen And All Saints, Vienna, Austria. (Part Five).
English:
Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of
Saint Stephen and All Saints, Vienna, Austria.
Deutsch:
Dom-und-Metropolitankirche zu
Sankt Stephan und allen Heiligen,
Wien, Österreich.
Photo: 8 October 2017.
Source: Own work.
This File is licensed under the
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Author: C.Stadler/Bwag
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Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia, unless stated otherwise.
At the top of the Tower stands the Double-Eagle Imperial emblem with the Habsburg-Lorraine Coat-of-Arms on its chest, surmounted by a Double-Armed Apostolic Cross, which refers to Apostolic Majesty, the Imperial Style of Kings of Hungary.
This emblem replaced the earlier Crescent and Six-Pointed Star emblem. The original emblem, as well as a couple of later ones, today can be seen at the Vienna City Museum.[5]
The North Tower was originally intended to mirror the South Tower, but the design proved too ambitious, considering the era of Gothic Cathedrals was nearing its end, and construction was halted in 1511.
In 1578, the Tower-Stump was augmented with a Renaissance cap, nicknamed the “Water Tower Top” by the Viennese. The Tower now stands at sixty-eight metres (223 ft) tall, roughly half the height of the South Tower.
The main entrance to the Church is named “The Giant’s Door”, or “Riesentor”, possibly referring to the thigh-bone of a Mammoth that hung over it for decades after being unearthed in 1443 while digging the Foundations for the North Tower, or else to the funnel shape of the door, from the Middle-High-German word “Risen”, meaning “Sink” or “Fall”.[6]
The Tympanum above the Giant’s Door depicts Christ Pantocrator flanked by two Winged-Angels, while on the Left and Right are the two Roman Towers, or “Heidentürme”, that each stand at approximately sixty-five metres (213 ft) tall.
The name for the Towers derives from the fact that they were constructed from the rubble of old structures built by the Romans (German “Heiden” meaning Heathens or Pagans) during their occupation of the area. Square at the base and Octagonal above the Roof-Line, the Heidentürme originally housed Bells; those in the South Tower were lost during World War II, but the North Tower remains an operational Bell Tower.
The Roman Towers, together with the Giant’s Door, are the oldest parts of the Church.
English:
The Nave, Vienna Cathedral.
Deutsch:
Innenansicht Richtung Empore des Stephansdoms
in der österreichischen Bundeshauptstadt Wien.
Photo: 26 February 2017.
Source: Own work.
Attribution:
© C.Stadler/Bwag; CC-BY-SA-4.0.
Author: C.Stadler/Bwag
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The glory of Saint Stephen’s Cathedral is its ornately-patterned, richly-coloured roof, 111 metres (364 ft) long, and covered by 230,000 glazed Tiles.
Above the Choir on the South side of the building, the Tiles form a mosaic of the Double-Headed Eagle that is symbolic of the Empire ruled from Vienna by the Habsburg dynasty.
On the North side, the Coats-of-Arms of the City of Vienna and the Republic of Austria are depicted. In 1945, fire, caused by World War II damage to nearby buildings, leapt to the North Tower of the Cathedral and destroyed the wooden framework of the roof.
Replicating the original bracing for so large a roof (it rises thirty-eight metres above the floor) would have been cost-prohibitive, so over 600 metric tons of Steel Bracing were used instead. The roof is so steep that it is sufficiently cleaned by the rain alone and is seldom covered by snow.
English:
The “New” Organ, Vienna Cathedral.
Deutsch:
Die „neue Domorgel“ bzw. „Rieger-Orgel“ im rechten Seitenschiff (Apostelschiff) des Stephansdoms in der österreichischen Bundeshauptstadt Wien.
Photo: 26 May 2018.
Source: Own work.
Attribution:
© C.Stadler/Bwag; CC-BY-SA-4.0
Author: C.Stadler/Bwag
(Wikimedia Commons)
PART SIX FOLLOWS.
An Act Of Consecration Of The Human Race To The Most Sacred Heart Of Jesus.
Catholic Holy Card depicting The Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Auguste Martin Collection, University of Dayton Libraries.
Date: 1880.
Source: Turgis.
Author: Turgis.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
Act Of Consecration
Of The Human Race
To The Sacred Heart Of Jesus.
Indulgence of 300 days each time.
On The Feast of Christ The King, to be Solemnly Read with The Litany of The Sacred Heart before The Blessed Sacrament exposed: Then, Seven Years and Seven Quarantines, and a Plenary Indulgence, supposing Confession and Communion.
Most Sweet Jesus, Redeemer of The Human Race, look down upon us humbly prostrate before Thy Altar. We are Thine, and Thine we wish to be; but, to be more surely united with Thee, behold each one of us freely Consecrates himself today to
Thy Most Sacred Heart.
Many, indeed, have never known Thee; many, too, despising Thy precepts, have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy Sacred Heart.
Be Thou King, Oh, Lord, not only of The Faithful who have
never forsaken Thee, but, also, of the prodigal children who have abandoned Thee; grant that they may quickly return to their Father's house, lest they die of wretchedness and hunger.
Be Thou King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions, or whom discord keeps aloof, and call them back to the harbour of Truth and Unity of Faith, so that, soon, there may be but one flock and one Shepherd.
Be Thou King of all those who are still involved
in the darkness of idolatry or of Islamism, and refuse not to draw them all into the light and kingdom of God. Turn Thine eyes of mercy towards the children of that race, once Thy chosen people: Of old, they called down upon themselves The Blood of The Saviour; may It now descend upon them a laver
of redemption and of life.
Grant, Oh, Lord, to Thy Church, assurance of freedom and immunity from harm; give peace and order to all Nations, and make the Earth resound from Pole to Pole with one cry: Praise be to The Divine Heart that wrought our Salvation; to It be glory and honour for ever.
Amen.
Saint Jane Frances Frémiot de Chantal. Widow. Feast Day 21 August. White Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Jane Frances Frémiot de Chantal.
Widow.
Feast Day 21 August.
Double.
White Vestments.
English: Saint Jane Frances Frémiot de Chantal.
Deutsch: Johanna Franziska von Chantal,
Heilige der Katholischen Kirche.
Français: Jeanne de Chantal
This File: 9 March 2015.
User: Kokodyl
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“Long-Suffering Leader”.
The Life of Saint Jane Frémiot de Chantal.
Available on YouTube
Like Mary, whose Assumption we have been Celebrating for the last seven days, Saint Jane Frances Frémiot de Chantal was a Spouse, a Mother, and a Widow. She was born at Dijon, France, the same Country as Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (Feast Day, yesterday), and received the Baptismal name of Jane, because that day, 23 January 1572, was The Feast Day of Saint John the Almoner.
The name of Frances, which she added at her Confirmation, reminds us of the gentle Saint of Geneva (Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva). As in previous times, Benedict and Scholastica, Francis of Assisi and Clare, so Francis de Sales and Jane Frances, corresponding with the designs of Divine Providence, united their pious efforts and enriched The Church by “the Foundation of a new family” (Collect). [Editor: The new family was “The Order of The Visitation of Holy Mary”.]
English: Saint Francis de Sales giving The Rule for
The Order of The Visitation of Holy Mary
to Saint Jane Frances Frémiot de Chantal
Français: Saint François de Sales donnant à sainte
Jeanne de Chantal la règle de l’ordre de la Visitation
Artist: Noël Hallé (1711-1781).
Date: 18th-Century.
Current location: Église Saint-Louis-en-l'Île, Paris.
(Wikimedia Commons)
At the death of her husband, Baron de Chantal (1601), his young Widow Consecrated herself to God by a Vow of Perpetual Chastity.
This strong woman [Editor: Latin: “Mulier Fortis”], spoken of in the Epistle, left everything to acquire at this price the precious Pearl of a Religious Life (Gospel). Her father and four of her six children were still living.
She became the Mother of innumerable Nuns of The Order of The Visitation, now dispersed over the whole World. Filled with The Spirit of Divine Charity (Postcommunion), she constantly repeated to them, like Saint John The Apostle: “Let us love God with our whole heart, and our neighbour as ourselves, for the love of God.”
Illustration: AZ QUOTES
She died at Moulins, France, in 1641.
Like Saint Jane Frances Frémiot de Chantal, and by her intercession, let us Pray God, that, knowing our weakness and relying on His strength, we may, by His Grace, overcome all obstacles (Collect).
Mass: Cognóvi.
Commemoration: The Octave of The Assumption.
Creed.
Preface: Of The Assumption (Et te in Assumptione).
English: Stained-Glass Window in the Church of Saint Philibert, Charlieu, France. It depicts (from Left to Right): Saint Francis de Sales; Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque;
Saint Jane Frances Frémiot de Chantal.
Deutsch: Bleiglasfenster in der Kirche Saint-Philibert in Charlieu, Darstellung: Franz von Sales (links), Margareta Maria Alacoque, Johanna Franziska von Chantal.
Photo: 3 July 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Reinhardhauke
(Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (Jeanne-Françoise Frémiot, Baronne de Chantal, 28 January 1572 – ☩ 13 December 1641) is a Roman Catholic Saint, who Founded a Religious Order after the death of her husband.
Jane Frances de Chantal was born in Dijon, France, on
Jane Frances de Chantal was born in Dijon, France, on
28 January 1572, the daughter of the Royalist President of the Parliament of Burgundy. Her mother died when Jane was eighteen months old. Her father became the main influence on her education. She developed into a woman of beauty and refinement, lively and cheerful in temperament.
Left a Widow at twenty-eight years old, with four children, the broken-hearted Baroness took a vow of Chastity. Her mother, step mother, sister, first two children, and now her husband, had died.
Chantal gained a reputation as an excellent manager of the estates of her husband, as well as of her difficult father-in-law, while also providing alms and nursing care to needy neighbours.
English: Stained-Glass Window in the Parish Church of
Saint John the Baptist, Dammartin-en-Goële, France;
it depicts Saint Francis de Sales introducing Saint Jane Frances Frémiot de Chantal to Saint Vincent de Paul.
Deutsch: Katholische Pfarrkirche Saint-Jean-Baptiste
(Johannes der Täufer) in Dammartin-en-Goële, Frankreich,
Bleiglasfenster, Darstellung: Franz von Sales stellt
Johanna Franziska von Chantal dem hl. Vinzenz von Paul vor.
Photo: 4 April 2013.
Source: Own work.
Author: GFreihalter
(Wikimedia Commons)
During Lent in 1604, the pious Baroness met Saint Francis de Sales, the Bishop of Geneva, who was Preaching at the Sainte Chapelle in Dijon. They became close friends and de Sales became her Spiritual Director. She wanted to become a Nun, but he persuaded her to defer this decision.
Later, with his support, and that of her father and brother (the Archbishop of Bourges), and after providing for her children, Chantal left for Annecy, to start The Congregation of The Visitation, which was Canonically established at Annecy on Trinity Sunday, 6 June 1610.
The usual opposition to women in active ministry arose and Francis de Sales was obliged to make it a Cloistered Community following The Rule of Saint Augustine. He wrote his Treatise on “The Love of God” for them. When people criticised her for accepting women of poor health and old age, Chantal said, “What do you want me to do ? I like sick people; I’m on their side.”
Saint Vincent de Paul served as her Spiritual Director after Saint Francis de Sales’ death. Her favourite Devotions involved The Sacred Heart of Jesus and The Heart of Mary.
The Church of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal,
Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.
Photo: 27 April 2013.
Source: Own work.
Author: Farragutful
(Wikimedia Commons)
Île de Ré during the Century’s Religious Wars) and two of her three daughters, but left extensive correspondence.
Her grand-daughter also became a famous writer, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné.
She was Beatified on 21 November 1751 by Pope Benedict XIV, and Canonised on 16 July 1767 by Pope Clement XIII.
Saint Jane Frances’s Feast Day was included in The General Roman Calendar in 1769, two years after she was Canonised. She wrote some exemplary Letters of Spiritual Direction.
Her grand-daughter also became a famous writer, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné.
She was Beatified on 21 November 1751 by Pope Benedict XIV, and Canonised on 16 July 1767 by Pope Clement XIII.
Saint Jane Frances’s Feast Day was included in The General Roman Calendar in 1769, two years after she was Canonised. She wrote some exemplary Letters of Spiritual Direction.
19th-Century print of
The Coat-of-Arms of The Order of The Visitation,
Founded in 1610 by Saint Francis de Sales
and Saint Joan Frances Frémiot de Chantal.
Source: http://www.visitation.org/
Author: Saint Francis de Sales.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Order of The Visitation of Holy Mary (Latin: Ordo Visitationis Beatissimæ Mariæ Virginis, V.H.M.), or, The Visitation Order, is an Enclosed Roman Catholic Religious Order for Women.
Members of The Order are also known as The Salesian Sisters (not to be confused with The Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco), or, more commonly, as The Visitandines, or, Visitation Sisters.
At first, the Founder had not a Religious Order in mind; he wished to form a Congregation without External Vows, where the Cloister should be observed only during the Year of Novitiate, after which the Sisters should be free to go out by turns to visit the Sick and the Poor.
The Order was given the name of The Visitation of Holy Mary with the intention that the Sisters would follow the example of The Virgin Mary and her joyful visit to her kinswoman, Elizabeth, (known as “The Visitation” in The Roman Catholic Church).
Sermon: Saint Jane Frances de Chantal.
Available on YouTube
Saint Francis de Sales invited Saint Jane Frances de Chantal to join him in establishing a new type of Religious Life, one open to older women and those of delicate constitution, that would stress the hidden inner virtues of humility, obedience, poverty, even-tempered Charity, and patience, and founded on the example of Mary in her journey of mercy to her cousin Elizabeth.
The Order was established to welcome those not able to practice austerities required in other Orders. Instead of chanting the Canonical Office in the middle of the night, the Sisters recited The Little Office of The Blessed Virgin at half-past eight in the evening. There was no Perpetual Abstinence nor prolonged Fast.
The Order of The Visitation of Mary was Canonically Erected in 1618 by Pope Paul V, who granted it all the privileges enjoyed by the other Orders. A Papal Bull of Pope Urban VIII solemnly approved it in 1626.
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