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Marie-Julie Jahenny (Breton pronunciation: [maˈʁiː ʒyˈliː ʒaɛˈniː], 12 February 1850 – 4 March 1941) was a Breton Catholic woman considered by some to be a mystic and stigmatist. She is associated with the Purple scapular.
These 'letters of Jesus Christ' are variants of the Carta dominica, a New Testament apocryphon whose first known mention dates from around 584. [ 54 ] In such a "letter", seized in 1818 from a pedlar in the department of Isère, Christ says in particular: "Attacks (sins) so worthy of the most cruel punishments, are stopped by the prayers of the ...
The Martyrs of Compiègne were the 16 members of the Carmel of Compiègne, France: 11 Discalced Carmelite nuns, three lay sisters, and two externs (or tertiaries).They were executed by the guillotine towards the end of the Reign of Terror, at what is now the Place de la Nation in Paris on 17 July 1794, and are venerated as martyr saints of the Catholic Church.
The year 1666 saw the founding of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Infant Jesus. After several years of teaching in the schools, the five young women were invited by Barré to consider becoming part of a committed community. After some reflection, they felt that they were indeed called to this way of life and agreed.
The first name was promised to her at nine, by Mother Marie de Gonzague, of the Child Jesus, and was given to her on her entry to the convent. In itself, veneration of the childhood of Jesus was a Carmelite heritage of the seventeenth century – it concentrated upon the staggering humiliation of divine majesty in assuming the shape of extreme ...
In 600 BC, Ionian Greeks founded the colony of Massalia (present-day Marseille) on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, making it one of the oldest cities in France. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] At the same time, some Celtic tribes arrived in the eastern parts ( Germania superior ) of the current territory of France, but this occupation spread in the rest of ...
Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk] ⓘ; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
After having professed her vows in 1633, [6] she changed her name to Marie de L'Incarnation; [7] that Christmas, she recounted a powerful vision, which functioned as the catalyst for her mission to New France. In this mystical dream, Guyart saw herself walking hand in hand with a fellow laywoman against the backdrop of a foreign landscape.