HERE IS ANOTHER STORY THAT I READ IN THE KINDLE BOOK. SHE IS A TRUE SAINT - CANONIZED BY POPE PIUS XII.
St. Emily de Vialar
St. Emily de Vialar, Virgin, Foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph "of the Apparition"
Anne Marguerite Adelaide Emily de Vialar was the eldest child and only daughter of Baron James
Augustine de Vialar and his wife Antoinette, daughter of that Baron de
Portal who was physician-in-ordinary to Louis XVIII and Charles X of
France. She was born at Gaillac in Languedoc in 1797. At the age of
fifteen she was removed from school in Paris
to be companion to her father, now a widower, at Gaillac; but
unhappily, differences arose between them because of Emily's refusal to
consider a suitable marriage.
For fifteen years, Emily was the good angel of Gaillac, devoting herself to the care of children neglected by their parents
and to the help of the poor generally. In 1832, her maternal
grandfather died, leaving her a share of his estate which was a quite
considerable fortune. She bought a large house at Gaillac and took
possession of it with three companions. Others joined them and three
months later, the archbishop
authorized the Abbe to clothe twelve postulants with the religious
habit. They called themselves the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition. Their work was to be the care of the needy, especially the sick, and the education
of children. In 1835, she made her profession with seventeen other
sisters, and received formal approval for the rule of the Congregation.
The foundress, in the course of twenty-two
years, saw her Congregation grow from one to some forty houses, many of
which she had founded in person. The physical energy and achievements of
St. Emily de Vialar
are the more remarkable in that from her youth she was troubled by
hernia, contracted characteristically in doing a deed of charity. From
1850 this became more and more serious, and it hastened her end, which
came on August 24, 1856. The burden of her last testament to her
daughters was "Love one another". Her canonization took place in 1951;
her feast is June 17th.
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