Marie de Sales Chappuis

Mary de Sales ( Marie de Sales) Chappuis ( born June 16, 1793 in Soyhières; † October 7, 1875 in Troyes ) was sister of the Visitation and pioneer establishing the Oblates of St.. Francis de Sales.

Life

As the seventh of eleven children came Thérèse (her baptismal name ) Chappuis in the small village in the Swiss Jura Soyhières to the world. At 14, she came to the boarding of the Sisters of the Visitation of Mary to Freiburg. After completing school, she returned first again back to her parents, however, felt called to become a nun. However, your first attempt at this failed because of homesickness. It was only on her second attempt she then remained in the monastery. On June 4, 1815 her investiture took place. She gets it her religious name Mary de Sales after the founder of their religious community, St.. Francis de Sales. This saint will henceforth determine their lives. In her first year in the convent she delves into the doctrine and spirituality of the Order's founder and the founder Jane Frances de Chantal. You experienced extraordinary visions in which their God is to understand that it consists in a "work", their task is to establish a religious community of men as Franz was up from Sales, to their achievement, however due to his early death at the age is no longer come from 55 years. On June 9, 1816 they promised in their religious profession a life under the three vows of poverty, chastity and obedience according to the rules of the order of the Sisters of the Visitation. Shortly thereafter, she commissioned to the monastery of Metz, which had been closed during the French Revolution, to build again. 1819 returns to her mother monastery in Fribourg. At the age of 33 years, on June 1, 1826 she is chosen for superior of Heimsuchungsklosters in Troyes, to renew the local monastery internally and externally. In 1838 they brought in the visitation to Paris to work there as well as superior beneficial. On their return from Paris to Troyes in 1844 she finds Louis Brisson ago as Spiritual Director of the monastery. In him she sees the founder of the Order of men in the spirit of St.. Francis feels to their achievement, they rely. However, it took until 1872 until Louis Brisson actually the Congregation of the Oblates of St.. Francis founded. 1875 the Congregation by Pope Pius IX. ecclesiastically recognized. For Mary de Sales Chappuis so that their life's mission was fulfilled. Shortly thereafter, on October 7, 1875, she died at the age of 82 years. On October 9, 1875 was solemnly buried in the cemetery Heimsuchungsklosters in Troyes. Immediately after her death, people began to seek their beatification. Was officially opened by the process in Rome in February 1898. During this process her coffin was opened on 17 May 1901. Here it was found that had laid a thick layer of white mold on their corpse. This apparently arose because it was raining at her funeral and the coffin was sealed until the grave. After removing the mold, it was discovered that the body was almost completely intact. Only the nose was slumped inward and the pupils were westernized. Today the remains of Mary de Sales Chappuis rest in a private chapel in the Visitation of Troyes.