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St. Maurice told the shepherdess to go to the Valley of Kilns, above Saint-Étienne, where she would see the Mother of God. [3] The Monument of Pindreau, in Saint-Étienne-le-Laus, depicting the apparition of the Virgin Mary to Benoîte Rencurel. On May 16 Benoite took her sheep to the Valley of Kilns.
In 1790, after the start of the French Revolution, Chaminade moved to Bordeaux. There he became an enemy of the state by defying the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which would have required him to take an oath affirming the Revolution's secular values and disclaiming the authority of the Roman Catholic Church. He secretly continued to work ...
Pages in category "French Roman Catholic saints" The following 167 pages are in this category, out of 167 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Latin: Ordo de Annuntiatione Beatæ Mariæ Virginis), also known as Sisters of the Annunciation or Annonciades, is an enclosed religious order of contemplative nuns founded in honor of the Annunciation in 1501 at Bourges by Joan de Valois, also known as Joan of France, daughter of King Louis XI of France, and wife of Louis, the Duke of ...
Louis Martin (22 August 1823 – 29 July 1894) and Azélie-Marie "Zélie" Guérin Martin (23 December 1831 – 28 August 1877) were a French Catholic couple and the parents of five nuns, including Thérèse of Lisieux, a Carmelite canonized by the Catholic Church in 1925, and her elder sister Léonie Martin, a Visitation Sister declared a Servant of God in 2015.
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, promoter of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Henri Boudon; Jean-Jacques Olier, (1608–1657), founded the Society of St. Sulpice, in 1642, to train and form future priests; Jeanne Chezard de Matel (1596–1670), foundress of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word in Avignon, France, in December, 1639. St. Louis de ...
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Pages in category "Patron saints of France" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Denis of Paris; J.