by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 20, 2021 | Visitation News, Visitation Outreach, Vocation news
Monastery of the Visitation in TrevisoShe came from Genoa to the monastery of the Visitandine in Treviso four years ago, when she was 42 years old. On the feast of the holy founder of the Order, last Thursday, within those walls, the “wedding of her with...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 20, 2021 | Vis Alum, Visitation History, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
A young Polish woman, Marianna Kossakowska, married a Russian officer with Hungarian roots – Trofim Pawłowicz Pustowojtow. Although this marriage did not please the bride’s family, who cultivated patriotic patterns and did not even have a gram of trust in...
by Sister Susan Marie | Aug 13, 2021 | Events, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, Visitation News, Visitation Outreach
2022 marks the 450th anniversary of birth of St Jane de Chantal and the 400th anniversary of the death of St Francis de Sales. To highlight these dates a variety of Salesian events are being planned. Fr Jim Greenfield OSFS, President of DeSales University will deliver...
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...