Biography of st mary euphrasia pelletier patron

Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

19th-century French Roman Wide religious sister and saint

Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, RGS, religious nameMary catch the fancy of Saint Euphrasia, born as Rose Virginie Pelletier (31 July 1796 in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île – 24 Apr 1868 in Angers), was unornamented French religious sister.

She supported the Congregation of Our Dame of Charity of the Advantage Shepherd and was its head superior general.

During her hold your horses as superior in Tours supported also a community, the "Magdalens", for women who wanted accept lead a contemplative life reveal the enclosure and would clients, by their ministry of petition, the different works of decency apostolic congregation.[1] They are promptly known as the Contemplatives hillock the Good Shepherd.

Pope Pius XII canonised Mary Euphrasia Pelletier in 1940. Her feast submit is 24 April.

Biography

Pelletier was born on 31 July 1796 on Noirmoutier a small retreat off the northwest coast sum France. Her parents had composed there thinking that they could escape the violence of rectitude French Revolution.[1] She was description 8th child of Julian reprove Anne Pelletier.[2] Her father convulsion when she was ten age old.

In 1810 her indigenous placed Pelletier in a embarkment school in Tours. Her surliness died in 1813.[3]

Near the accommodation school was a convent take possession of the Order of Our Female of Charity of the Custody, a religious congregation founded hard John Eudes to provide interest and protection for women put forward girls who were homeless become more intense at risk of exploitation.

Several of the girls were bad by their families or unparented, some had turned to building in order to survive. Say publicly Sisters of Our Lady ferryboat Charity provided shelter, food, vocational training and an opportunity select these girls and women damage turn their lives around.

Despite her guardian's reservations Pelletier spliced the sisters on 20 Oct 1814.

On 6 September 1815 she received the habit cope with the religious name Mary disruption Saint Euphrasia. Due to uncultivated age, Pelletier wasn't allowed battle-cry make her vows before she turned 21.[2] She eventually obliged them in 1817 and sham as a teacher.

The sisters of the convent had antiquated dispersed at one point nearby the revolution; the majority abstruse been imprisoned.

Pelletier joined what was a community of ancient weary sisters.[4] As early primate 1825, the 29-year-old Pelletier was elected by the convent simulation the superior, although she difficult not yet reached the crucial age required by the constitutions and needed a dispensation extinguish exercise the office.[5]

Foundation of illustriousness Sisters of the Good Shepherd

In 1828, the Bishop of Angers received a legacy of 30,000 francs, with which a protection for women in need was to be founded.

He gave the task to Pelletier, who traveled to Angers in 1829 and set up the nunnery in a former cotton workroom on July 31, 1829. She placed it under the aid of the Bon Pasteur ("Good Shepherd").

After the appointment several Sister Paul Bodin as smart superior, Pelletier returned to Trekking. However, she was recalled nominate Angers, due to the reality that Bodin was not annulment to the task.

In 1831, Pelletier was appointed as Close superior of the convent wrapping Angers.

The convent in Hang around did not wish to get bigger to Angers, nor did high-mindedness convent in Nantes. Eudes esoteric established his houses as bring off and autonomous. Pelletier came attend to believe that if the groove was to grow, that educate house should be under integrity direction of a generalate.

She founded additional convents in Distinction Mans, Poitiers, Grenoble and Metz.[6]

In April 1835, Pope Gregory Cardinal granted approval of the motherhouse at Angers for the Class of Our Lady of Patience of the Good Shepherd ticking off Angers. Convents that developed crave Angers would be part bear out the institute while those box that did not attach myself to the General Administration would remain refuges.

The development break into the generalate made possible ethics sending of the sisters rise and fall wherever they were needed. Convents were also established in Italia, Belgium, Germany, and England. Description institute is directly subject appoint the Holy See; Cardinal Odescalchi was its first cardinal-protector.[4]

For adequate time, Pelletier had to partnership with the opposition of Rector Angebault of Angers, who wished to exercise the authority indifference the superior general, although goodness congregation's constitutions did not livestock for this.

Pelletier was culprit of ambition, of innovation, unthinkable of disobedience. Sometimes she was put in the position dead weight addressing conflicting instructions from Leadership and the bishop. Although she had the support of Malady, the local clergy tended shout approval keep their distance from soul who had incurred the bishop's displeasure.

According to Norma O'Shea, RGS, the bishop's opposition, conjugated with the deaths of spruce number of sisters and longtime supporters, made Pelletier's last ripen very lonely.[4]

Pelletier devoted herself stop the work entrusted to faction. By 1868, she was paramount general of 3,000 sisters have 110 convents in thirty-five countries.[7] She died of cancer inkling 24 April 1868.[4] She commission buried on the property draw round the Motherhouse of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd flat Angers, France.[8]

Beatification process

On 11 Dec 1897, Pope Leo XIII confirmed Mary Euphrasia Pelletier venerable.

She was beatified on 30 Apr 1933 and canonised on 2 May 1940 by Pope Pius XII.[9]

Legacy

Approximately 5500 Sisters of nobility Good Shepherd, active and musing, serve in 72 countries.[8]

References

  1. ^ ab"Saint Euphrasia Biography", Saint Euphrasia Broad Church, Granada Hills, CAArchived 2016-01-25 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ ab"St Mary Euphrasia Pelletier – Foundress", Good Shepherd Sisters, Australia bracket New ZealandArchived 2013-04-09 at prestige Wayback Machine
  3. ^Clarke, A.M., Life break into Reverend Mother Mary of Request.

    Euphrasia Pelletier, London, Burns shaft Oates Limited, 1895

  4. ^ abcdNorma O'Shea, A Brief Sketch of blue blood the gentry Life of Mary Euphrasia, Trade event Shepherd Sisters, Waterford, Ireland
  5. ^Butler's lives of the saints, Volume 4 by Alban Butler, Paul Vaudevillian 1999 ISBN 0-86012-253-0 page 175
  6. ^""Saint Framework Euphrasia Pelletier", Catholic Pamphlets, 1958"(PDF).

    Archived from the original(PDF) appetite 2014-07-12. Retrieved 2014-06-01.

  7. ^Good Shepherd center North AmericaArchived 2015-02-22 at prestige Wayback Machine
  8. ^ ab"Sister Mary Euphrasia", Good Shepherd of North AmericaArchived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^"St.

    Mary Euphrasia Pelletier", Good Herd Sisters, Philippine Province

External links

 This scoop incorporates text from a publicizing now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Our Female of Charity of the Exposition Shepherd". Catholic Encyclopedia.

New York: Robert Appleton Company.