by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 14, 2018 | Visitation History, Visitation News
Here is an obscure reality that we’d like to share with you: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. responded to a letter from a Visitation Sister back in 1963! Sr. Clare Therese Brandon VHM who went back to God in January 2011, was a remarkable religious. During the Civil...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 7, 2018 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, Visitation News
In the last 22 years, more than 200 Catholic media and communication professionals from the Catholic media have been meeting for three days of discussions during the François de Sales Days. This year, they are co-organized by the Secretariat for Communication of the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jan 7, 2018 | Visitation News
In Annecy, women take a break at the monastery Three times a year, Christians find themselves in the monastery of the Visitation to relax outside the world. Each quarter, about forty women gather for a day. Each quarter, about forty women gather for a day. They are...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 27, 2017 | Museum of the Visitation, Visitation News
2018 – When Switzerland opens its coffers May 1 to December 24, 2018 The treasures of the Visitation of Freiborg are exhibited for the first time, in a setting both modern and surprising. The rich liturgical vestments are embellished with gold and silver...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 12, 2017 | Visitation News
Our Visitation family has much to ponder in these thoughts of Archbishop Lori, spoken in 2009 at a Marian conference. He compared the tremendous apparition in Mexico of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Our Lady’s visit to her cousin Elizabeth in stirring words. “Bishop Lori...
by Sister Susan Marie | Dec 1, 2017 | Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Visitation Saints
December 8, 1602: Episcopal ordination of St. Francis de Sales in the church of his baptism in Torens December 13, 1641: Death of St. Jane de Chantal at the Visitation of Moulins. December 17, 1887: Birth of the Visitandine servant of God Mother Maria-Angelica Alvarez...