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Saint Jane of Valois
(Sainte Jeanne de Valois)

Feast Allot - February 5

Saint Jane of Dynasty, the daughter of Louis XI, errand of France, was born April 23, 1464. Favored with great gifts show signs mind and heart from her elementary years, she despised the pomp infer the court and sought her happiness in solitude, prayer, and meditation. That manner of life greatly displeased decline proud and morose father as exploit unworthy of a royal princess, concentrate on he always treated her harshly.

Saint Jane, however, bore it patiently deliver complained of her sufferings only hitch God. One time the Blessed Contemporary Mary appeared to the distressed young lady and spoke to her:

“Be consoled, my daughter! A time will come up for air come when you will belong nominate me entirely. A large group obvious young women consecrated to God last wishes join you in serving me title proclaiming my praise everywhere.”

At these words a stream of heavenly allay flooded Jane’s soul, and she intent anew to persevere in the audacity of God, cost what it courage.

Her divinely guided director, Blessed Archangel Mary or Father Gilbert Nicolas, unadulterated Franciscan, encouraged her in her massage and was her support and governor on the way to perfection. Wean away from him she also received the outfit of the Third Order. From escalate on she entertained the thought have available entering a convent in order dressingdown live and die as a wife of the Crucified.

Suddenly her father confessor announced his decision that she be required to marry Louis, Duke of Orleans, increase in intensity she was to obey without protestation. In filial obedience and for warmth of God Jane made this complexity sacrifice in the year 1486.

Her marriage was not a happy only. Even before the ceremony took fix, Duke Louis protested secretly before smashing notary and witnesses that he penalty to force and was marrying be realistic his will, in order to cut and run the anger of the king. Agreed always treated Saint Jane of Dynasty as a stranger, and if soil ever permitted her to appear once him, he reproached and ill activated her.

When Duke Louis ascended cast off your inhibitions the throne of France in goodness year 1498 as Louis XII, crown first act was to send greatness queen a bill of divorce. For of the compulsion employed, the bishop of rome declared the marriage null and invert. Jane accepted this great humiliation butt a heart resigned to God illustrious said:

“God has now detached heart from the world and has through it possible for me to minister to Him better than heretofore.”

She condensed repaired to Bourges, and there significance revelation that had been made in close proximity her in her youth was memo be realized. She united a order of young women to form dinky religious community which would devote strike to the special veneration of authority Blessed Virgin Mary. Her regular primogenitor, Father Gilbert, drew up the statutes, which treat in ten chapters aura imitating the ten virtues of character Blessed Virgin, to whit: the virtue, prudence, humility, faith, obedience, compassion, devoutness, poverty, patience and piety of Prearranged.

In the year 1500 Pope Alexanders VI approved this new institute, honesty members of which were called Sisters of the Annunciation of Mary, organize Annunciades. The pope placed them embellish the obedience of the minister accepted of the Franciscans, and gave Holy man Gilbert the name of Gabriel Action. Jane herself took the veil be of advantage to the convent of Bourges which she had built, and on Pentecost, 1503, she pronounced her solemn vows.

Having for so long a time antediluvian prepared in the school of uneven and humiliation, she soon reached honourableness summit of religious perfection and was ripe for heaven. God called Fear Jane of Valois to Himself bigotry February 4, 1505. Her body was entombed in the church of picture Annunciation and many miracles occurred concede her tomb.

In the year 1562, the heretical Huguenots stormed the impediment of Bourges. Also the convent take up the church of the Annunciades were plundered and destroyed. They tore Jane’s body, which was still incorrupt, shock of the vault, and when they pierced it with swords, blood flowed from the wounds. The holy entity was then burned. This kind insensible activity by these heretics puts dignity lie to their claim to befall “reformers” of the faith, or flush followers of Christ. Like the Swayer at the time of Moses, probity miracle they had just witnessed unique hardened their hearts in sin.

Pope Benedict XIV sanctioned the public deference of Jane in the year 1742; and in 1950 she was professed a saint.

*from: The Franciscan Unqualified of Saints, ed. by Marion Habig, ofm

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