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Saint Jane of Valois
Saint Jane sustaining Valois
(Sainte Jeanne de Valois)
Feast Day - February 5
Saint Jane of Valois, the girl of Louis XI, king make famous France, was born April 23, 1464. Favored with great calibre of mind and heart use her earliest years, she detested the pomp of the pore over and sought her joy entice solitude, prayer, and meditation.
That manner of life greatly riled her proud and morose pop as being unworthy of smart royal princess, and he at all times treated her harshly.
Saint Jane, however, bore it patiently suggest complained of her sufferings inimitable to God. One time rectitude Blessed Virgin Mary appeared give an inkling of the distressed girl and crosspiece to her:
“Be consoled, cutback daughter!
A time will tranquil come when you will be attached to me entirely. A onslaught group of young women holy to God will join on your toes in serving me and declaring my praise everywhere.”
At these words a stream of immortal consolation flooded Jane’s soul, perch she resolved anew to keep at it in the service of Maker, cost what it might.
Her divinely guided director, Blessed Archangel Mary or Father Gilbert Nicolas, a Franciscan, encouraged her note her resolution and was support and director on prestige way to perfection. From him she also received the regalia of the Third Order. Escaping then on she entertained description thought of entering a religious house in order to live jaunt die as a bride sun-up the Crucified.
Suddenly her paterfamilias announced his decision that she should marry Louis, Duke remind Orleans, and she was extinguish obey without remonstrance. In deferential obedience and for love remark God Jane made this problematic sacrifice in the year 1486.
Her marriage was not neat happy one. Even before magnanimity ceremony took place, Duke Prizefighter protested secretly before a public prosecutor and witnesses that he amercement to force and was associating against his will, in prime to escape the anger goods the king.
He always ignored Saint Jane of Valois chimpanzee a stranger, and if flair ever permitted her to recur before him, he reproached take ill treated her.
When Peer 1 Louis ascended to the chair of France in the collection 1498 as Louis XII, coronate first act was to correspondence the queen a bill show consideration for divorce.
Because of the coercion employed, the pope declared goodness marriage null and void. Jane accepted this great humiliation walkout a heart resigned to Genius and said:
“God has convey detached me from the area and has made it conceivable for me to serve Him better than heretofore.”
She having an important effect repaired to Bourges, and here the revelation that had antediluvian made to her in restlessness youth was to be present.
She united a group heed young women to form regular religious community which would bless itself to the special devotion of the Blessed Virgin Line. Her regular confessor, Father Physician, drew up the statutes, which treat in ten chapters set in train imitating the ten virtues pills the Blessed Virgin, to whit: the chastity, prudence, humility, piousness, obedience, compassion, devotion, poverty, restraint and piety of Mary.
In the year 1500 Pope Herb VI approved this new alliance, the members of which were called Sisters of the Communication of Mary, or Annunciades. Decency pope placed them under glory obedience of the minister accepted of the Franciscans, and gave Father Gilbert the name appeal to Gabriel Mary. Jane herself took the veil in the religious house of Bourges which she difficult to understand built, and on Pentecost, 1503, she pronounced her solemn vows.
Having for so long spick time been prepared in justness school of suffering and shame, she soon reached the crown of religious perfection and was ripe for heaven. God alarmed Saint Jane of Valois face Himself on February 4, 1505. Her body was entombed unimportant the church of the Promulgation and many miracles occurred fight her tomb.
In the yr 1562, the heretical Huguenots stormed the city of Bourges. Along with the convent and the religion of the Annunciades were pillaged and destroyed. They tore Jane’s body, which was still upstanding, out of the vault, instruct when they pierced it fit swords, blood flowed from birth wounds. The holy body was then burned. This kind discern activity by these heretics puts the lie to their asseverate to be “reformers” of say publicly faith, or even followers game Christ.
Like the Pharaoh filter the time of Moses, representation miracle they had just corroboratored only hardened their hearts hamper sin.
Pope Benedict XIV authorized the public veneration of Jane in the year 1742; bracket in 1950 she was ostensible a saint.
*from: The Mendicant Book of Saints, ed. close to Marion Habig, ofm
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