by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 14, 2018 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Visitation History
Mercy is always a gratuitous act of our heavenly Father Hi Subscriber, This week we would like to talk about the deep devotion that Visitation Sisters have to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and our mission to spread this love since St Margaret Mary’s apparitions of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Apr 6, 2018 | Holy Year of Mercy, Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation News
In the hidden providence of Our Lord and His unfathomable designs, He arranged, through a variety of circumstances, that the ORIGINAL PAINTING OF THE DIVINE MERCY IMAGE be executed on the premises of the Visitation Nuns Monastery in Vilnius, Lithuania! There are many...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 24, 2018 | MYSTIC OF THE MONTH, Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
A generation closer to our Foundress, St Jane de Chantal, than Marie-Blanche de Grignan (Sr Francoise Marie, Visitandine) was St. Jane’s great granddaughter, Diane, whose grandmother was Francoise, the only child of St. Jane to survive her. This granddaughter,...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 22, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Vis Alum, Visitation History, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Marie Blanche de Grignan was the great-great granddaughter of the Visitation Order’s Foundress, St. Jane de Chantal, and the granddaughter of the famous letter writer, Madame Sevigne. Her mother Francoise, married to François Adhémar de Monteil, comte de...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 20, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Who was this Marie-Blanche, Visitandine that was listed on the genealogical chart at the Gallery House in Annecy, the Visitation Order’s first Monastery? The chart showed that: St. Jane de Chantal’s son Celse Benigne had a daughter, Marie de Rabutin...
by Sister Susan Marie | Mar 19, 2018 | Salesian Spirituality, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
The Gallery House is the first community that the Visitation Order settled in with the original Foundresses and still exists today, owned by the Sisters of St. Joseph, where various rooms are preserved to tell the story of St. Jane de Chantal and the Founding Sisters....