Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier de Ages
Jeanne-Élisabeth Bichier des Ages (5 July 1773 – 26 August 1838) is a French saint, canonized by Pope Pius XII on 6 July 1947. She is commemorated on 26 August.
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, her father died. All the family goods were confiscated. She was imprisoned with her mother and had to struggle against lawyers in order to get back everything she could recover. She left the castle and retired in a country-house in the Poitou region. Since her childhood she was attracted by contemplation and she was consecrated to the Virgin Mary. Her wish was to consecrate her life to God in enclosure, but she did not tell her mother. During the Revolution she used to gather people and pray with them.[1]
Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier des Ages was the founder of the Daughters of the Cross,[2] a religious order which is devoted to the care of the poor and the instruction of county children in the diocese of Poitiers, France.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Fraternity
- ↑ Maison-Mère des Filles de la Croix 86260 LA PUYE (FRANCE) fillesdelacroixlapuye@wanadoo.fr
- ↑ F. Englebert, The lives of the Saints, David MacKay, Co.New York, 1951 p327
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