Louise of Savoy (nun)

Louise of Savoy ( born December 28, 1461 in Bourg- en- Bresse, † July 24, 1503 in Orbe, Free County of Burgundy, today the canton of Vaud / Switzerland ) was a French nobleman and later a nun in the Order of Poor Clares.

Life

Louise was a daughter of Amadeus IX. , Duke of Savoy and Jolande of France, a sister of the French king Louis XI .. At the behest of her uncle she married in August 1479 Hugh II of Chalon ( 1450-1490 ), Lord of Châtelguyon, Dole and Orbe, son of Louis of Chalon- Arlay and Eleanor of Armagnac. The couple lived in Nozeroy and is said to have won there by charity and simple life. After the death of her husband in 1490, she was in the Poor Clare Monastery of Orbe, where she lived until her death in accordance with the rules of the order.

Aftermath

After the Poor Clares had decided in 1530 to leave it by the Reformed Bernese threatened convent, her relics were - along with those of her sister, the Blessed Philippine Chalon (around 1455-1507 ) - an initiative by Philibert of Luxembourg, widow transferred from Louise's nephew Jean de Chalon- Arlay in the Poor Clare Monastery of Nozeroy 1531 and buried in the local monastery church. The church was destroyed during the French Revolution in 1792, but the remains were found in 1839, again exhumed and taken in a reliquary, to be transferred to in 1840/42 to Turin. There they were buried in the palace chapel at the Shrine of Amadeus of Savoy, who had been beatified in 1677.

Louise of Savoy was on 12 August 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI. beatified. Your feast day is July 24. Shown she is in prayer position with cross in Klarissenhabit.