Letters of Saint Chantal. Vol ll. 1823. Order of the Visitation of Saint Mary.Visitandines. Religious heritage. Historical correspondence

Letters of Saint Chantal, founder of the Order of the Visitation of Saint Mary. Volume 2
In Paris.
J.J. Blaise, bookseller of H.S.H. Madame La Duchesses d'Orléans, Dowager.
MD CCC XX lll (1823)
Printing of Jules Didot senior, Knight of the Legion of Honor. Printer to the King.
486 p.
In-8 (21 cm x)
Half brown sheepskin binding. Hard cover. Ribbed spine. (see photos)
Flowered inside cover, head section, tail section and gutter section. (see photos)
Head cap and tail cap slightly missing (see photos)
Reglued spine and rubbed corners (see photos)
Pencil writing on cover page and title page (see photos)
Seal "LA SOLITUDE. Philosophy seminar. Montreal" (see photos)
Lack of flowers on the last cover page (see photos)
Very clean interior (see photos)

This collection brings together correspondence from Saint Chantal in which she explains to her contemporaries the role of the Visitandines as well as the main aspects of her faith.
Canonized in 1767, Jeanne-Françoise Frémiot, Baroness de Chantal, founded, with Saint-François de Sales, the order of the Visitation of Saint Mary (cloistered and contemplative order). She was its first superior.
The financial autonomy of the order stems from rules established by its foundress. To be admitted, the sisters must deposit a sum of money upon entering religious life. This "spiritual dowry" constitutes a capital that the Visitandines make profitable and that the sisters can bequeath or not to the order upon their death.
Saint Chantal is the patron saint of ex-convicts, forgotten people, mothers, widows and women with the first name Jeanne, France, Francine or Chantal.



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