Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Jeanne Jugan (25 October 1792 – 29 August 1879), religious name Mary of the Cross, was a French religious sister who became known for the dedication of her life to the neediest of the elderly poor. Her service resulted in the establishment of the Little Sisters of the Poor , who care for the elderly who have no other resources throughout the ...
The Little Sisters of the Poor (French: Petites Sœurs des Pauvres) is a Roman Catholic religious institute for women. It was founded by the Catholic saint, Jeanne Jugan. Having felt the need to care for the many impoverished elderly who lined the streets of French towns and cities, Jugan established the congregation to care for the elderly in ...
Jane Frances de Chantal, VHM (born Jeanne-Françoise Frémyot, Baroness of Chantal; 23 January 1572 – 13 December 1641) was a French Catholic noble widow and nun who was beatified in 1751 and canonized in 1767.
The commune of Saint-Servan was merged with Paramé, into the commune of Saint-Malo in 1967. Originally, the area was known as Aleth, whose first bishop was the 5th century Saint Malo. Today, Catholic pilgrims can visit the House of the Cross at Saint-Servan where Saint Jeanne Jugan performed her charitable works for the Little Sisters of the ...
The Order of the Visitation was founded in 1610 by Francis de Sales and Jane Frances de Chantal in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France.At first, the founder had not a religious order in mind; he wished to form a congregation without external vows, where the cloister should be observed only during the year of novitiate, after which the sisters should be free to go out by turns to visit the sick and poor.
In his bibliographical notes on the sources of his own "Histoire de l'hôtel-Dieu de Québec", in "Œuvres complètes", Montréal, ed. C. O. Beauchemin & Fils, t. 4, p. 11, historian Henri-Raymond Casgrain writes of the Histoire de l'hôtel-Dieu de Québec, by Mother Juchereau of Saint-Ignace: "This Histoire was written based on information ...
In 2010, the parish was merged with St Urban's church to become one parish named after St Jeanne Jugan. [9] The church has one Sunday Mass every week, at 8:45 am on Sundays. St Urban's Church has Mass times not to conflict with Our Lady of Lourdes church, it has Mass at 6:00 pm on Saturdays and at 10:30 am on Sundays.
Jeanne des Anges, also known as Jeanne de Belcier (2 February 1602 – 29 January 1665), was a French Ursuline nun in Loudun, France.She became mother superior of the convent at a young age, but is chiefly remembered as a central figure in the case of the possessed of Loudun in 1632, which led, after witch trials, to the burning at the stake of the priest Urbain Grandier two years later.