Jane Frances de Chantal
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| Saint Jane Frances de Chantal | |
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| Foundress | |
| Born | 28 January 1572, Dijon, Burgundy, France |
| Died | 13 December 1641 (aged 69), Moulins, France |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 21 November 1751, Rome by Pope Benedict XIV |
| Canonized | 16 July 1767, Rome by Pope Clement XIII |
| Major shrine | Annecy, Savoy |
| Feast | 12 August 21 August (Traditional Roman Catholics) |
| Patronage | forgotten people; in-law problems; loss of parents; parents separated from children; widows |
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (Jeanne-Françoise Frémiot, Baronne de Chantal, 28 January 1572 – 13 December 1641) is a Roman Catholic Saint, who founded a religious order after the death of her husband.
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[edit] Life
Jane Frances was born in Dijon, France. The mother of six children (three died shortly after they were born), she was widowed at the age of 28. She met Saint Francis de Sales when he preached at the Sainte Chapelle in Dijon and was inspired to start a religious order for women, the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary.
She died at the Visitation Convent in Moulins, one of those she founded, and was buried in Annecy.
[edit] Veneration
She was beatified on 21 November 1751 by Pope Benedict XIV, and canonized on 16 July 1767 by Pope Clement XIII.
St Jane Frances de Chantal's feast is currently celebrated in the Roman Catholic Calendar of saints on 12 August. Prior to the reform of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints in 1962, her feast had been celebrated on 21 August. In recent memory, her feast was celebrated on 12 December, but was transferred by decree 2492/01/L of 18 December 2001 of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, because her optional memorial on 12 December was becoming superseded in a large part by the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, whom Pope John Paul II's declared Patroness of the Americas on 25 March 1999. In the United States, her optional memorial was briefly transferred to August 18 until the August 12 date was added to the General Roman Calendar, superseding the U.S. indult.[1] Traditional Roman Catholics continue to celebrate her feast day on 21 August (see the General Roman Calendar as in 1954, the General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII, and the General Roman Calendar of 1962).
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal wrote some exemplary letters of spiritual direction.[2] She was the paternal grandmother of the French letter-writer Madame de Sévigné.
[edit] References
- ^ Guidelines for the Publication of Liturgical Books
- ^ Francis de Sales, Jane De Chantal, Letters of Spiritual Direction (Classics of Western Spirituality), translated by Péronne Marie Thibert, V.H.M. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1988.
[edit] External links
- St. Jane Frances de Chantal at Saint of the Day
- The Life of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal
- St. Jane Frances de Chantal at Catholic Online
- Saint Jeanne de Chantal at Patron Saints Index
- Saint Jane Frances De Chantal School in North Hollywood, California
- "St. Jane Frances de Chantal". Catholic Encyclopedia. 1913. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08282c.htm.
This article incorporates text from the entry St. Jane Frances de Chantal in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
