{"id":35187,"date":"2018-08-12T20:27:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T00:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35187"},"modified":"2018-08-13T20:36:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:36:42","slug":"st-jane-frances-de-chantal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2018\/08\/st-jane-frances-de-chantal\/","title":{"rendered":"St Jane Frances de Chantal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>St. Jane Frances de Chantal (1572\u20131641) is honored today on the liturgical calendar. She was born in Dijon, France, and the daughter of the president of parliament.<\/p>\n

By\u00a021 she married a baron and had six children. Jane was\u00a0a refined, cheerful, and beautiful woman, committed to Catholic faith, and widow after 7 years of marriage. \u00a0A daily Mass go-er she also gave\u00a0alms to the poor, and was a good administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n

At 32 she met St. Francis de Sales after a mystical vision while\u00a0praying for a spiritual director. On love for Christ she made a private vow of chastity to which she added obedience to his direction, while continuing to provide for her children.\u00a0By 45 all of her family obligations were met and with Bishop Francis de Sales founded a religious institute for women, the Order\u00a0of the Visitation, giving witness to the\u00a0virtues of the Virgin Mary at the time of the Visitation. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Visitation sisters accepted women who were rejected from other religious orders due to age or illness, and were notable for their active charitable works. Jane’s counsel was sought by all people, high and low in society. She also traveled extensively to found new Visitation houses, leaving 86 at the time of her death, and 164 at the time of her canonization. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St. Jane Frances de Chantal (1572\u20131641) is honored today on the liturgical calendar. She was born in Dijon, France, and the daughter of the president of parliament. By\u00a021 she married a baron and had six children. Jane was\u00a0a refined, cheerful, and beautiful woman, committed to Catholic faith, and widow after 7 years of marriage. \u00a0A … Continue reading St Jane Frances de Chantal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35189,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187\/revisions\/35189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}