by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 9, 2019 | Events, Visitation History, Visitation News
Visitation Monastery Warsaw Yesterday a major event took place in the Warsaw Visitation Monastery Chapel- the funeral of a well known Polish Priest/Actor! With emotion and tears they remembered the late Fr. Kazimierz Orzechowski, his spiritual children –...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 29, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
Did you know?- that St Francis de Sales, Founder of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary might have chosen St Martha as the congregation’s patron? Among the questions to be settled in the early days of Francis and Jane’s fledgling institute was its name. Several...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 26, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
Jane de Chantal: a life for the poor at the time of the wars of religion “I have always believed that in the person of these poor I wipe the wounds of Jesus Christ,” said St. Jane de Chantal, the founder of the Order of the Visitation.Jane-Françoise...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 25, 2019 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation Saints
From her childhood, Jane de Chantal is described as “beautiful, cheerful, simple, clairvoyant, determined and deeply applied to her duties as a Christian”. “The perfect lady” first saw her faith in service to the poor and the sick. But after...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 25, 2019 | Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
Medical Prof. Paweł Januszewicz “It was my parish church, I lived in Śródmieście for a long time. No one could help , so I got involved – says the professor. In spite of numerous duties as the scientific director of the National Medicines Institute, he...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 22, 2019 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Sacred Heart, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History
An obscure mystic of the Sacred Heart, a Visitandine, and a “foundress”, Rosalie Albaret, or Sister Teresa of Jesus, was born in France in January of 1743, the youngest of 10 children, and eventually entered the Visitation Monastery of Avignon. Her dad was...