Jane Frances de Chantal

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, VHM (born Jeanne-Françoise Frémyot, Baroness of Chantal; 28 January 1572 – 13 December 1641) was a French Catholic noble widow and nun who was beatified in 1751 and canonized in 1767. She founded the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary. The religious order accepted women who were rejected by other orders because of poor health or age.

Quotes

• (About Francis of Sales) He follows ordinary life, but in such a heavenly and divine way that nothing in his life is more admirable than this.

• Quoted in Natale Ginelli, La tua via, Edizioni Paoline, Milano, 1957.

''Volerci come Dio ci vuole

Jeanne-Françoise Frémiot de Chantal, Volerci come Dio ci vuole. Scritti spirituali, traduzione di Laura Draghi, Città Nuova, 2000 (in Italian)

• Question me, I'm not a good preacher, I can only speak with answers.
• Love is ungrateful, infirm, and unworthy of the name of love if it is not faithful in doing every will of God.
• The pinnacle of perfection lies in wanting us as God wants us to be.
• [I want] only Him in time and eternity.ù

External links

• Media related to Jane Frances de Chantal on Wikimedia Commons