by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 16, 2021 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation History
This new Spanish book, written by Salesian Don Eugenio Alburquerque Frutos, a devotee and scholar of the figure of the Savoyard saint for almost 20 years, claims to be a definitive biography of this Doctor of the Church, Bishop and Founder of the Visitation Order....
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 8, 2021 | Saintly Visitandines, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
A new Polish book entitled Panie Lutosławskie” by Tomasza Szymańskiego features, among other women, a Visitandine of Warsaw, Mother Maria Klaudia Niklewiczówna VSM. This is her story. Mother Maria Klaudia Niklewiczówna VSM was born in Warsaw on December 23, 1918, the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 7, 2021 | Events, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
A new Polish book entitled Panie Lutosławskie” by Tomasza Szymańskiego features, among other women, a Visitandine of Warsaw, Mother Maria Klaudia Niklewiczówna VSM. Researching other available documents on this special Sister led to her report on wartime atrocities in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 1, 2021 | Visitation History, Visitation Outreach
July 2, 1688: (at the time, day fixed for the feast of the Visitation) Saint Marguerite-Marie (nun of the Visitation of Paray-le-Monial) contemplates in a vision the Heart of Jesus, surrounded by the Virgin Mary, of Saint François de Sales and Saint Claude de la...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 11, 2021 | Visitation History, Visitation News
Memento of the month 1st Friday of the month of June 1674: Our Lord Jesus Christ unveiling his Sacred Heart, during what is called the “2nd great apparition”, asks Saint Marguerite-Marie (nun of the Visitation of Paray-le -Monial) the reparative communion of the 1st...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 6, 2021 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation History, Visitation News
A foundation and a world center for Saint Francis de Sales At the dawn of the 17th century, Saint François de Sales (1567-1622) acquired the castle of Thorens-Glières. Isabelle de Roussy de Sales, direct descendant of the brother of Saint François de Sales, and her...