Anne-Marie Rivier
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Patronage | Sisters of the Presentation of Mary |
Anne-Marie Rivier (19 December 1768 – 3 February 1838) was a French Catholic religious sister and the foundress of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary.[1] Rivier's focus was on education and she opened a school just before the beginning of the French Revolution which saw her school confiscated. The end of the revolution allowed for her to resume her educational inclinations and she also founded her religious order to take care of the education of orphans and other children who needed education.[2][3]
Her beatification process began in mid-1853 under
Life
Anne-Marie Rivier (known as Marinette to her parents) was born on 19 December 1768 in Montpezat-sous-Bauzon in Ardèche as the third of four children to Jean Rivier and his wife. Her baptism was celebrated that month before Christmas with her grandmother acting as her sponsor.[2] Her mother died in 1793.
Sixteen months after her birth in late April 1770 she suffered an accident that resulted in a broken hip and ankle to the point that she would be unable to walk; she started to crawl in order to compensate for a total lack of movement. Until she turned five her mother took her to the local shrine - the "Chapel of the Penitents" - where she would spend hours in silent reflection before a representation of the Pietà.[1] On 8 September 1774 she found that she was able to walk albeit with the help of crutches though would suffer from rickets and in her adulthood stood at four feet and four inches. For someone who had been unable to walk up until this stage it was in itself something of a miracle; her strength would return over time despite not being strong due to this.[1] In 1785 she applied to join the Sisters of Notre Dame in Pradelles but was turned down due to her poor health. But she was undeterred and instead established a school in her home town in 1786.
The nation soon experienced the trauma of the
In 1794 the authorities confiscated the building in which the school was run and Rivier and her companions moved to the town of
Rivier died in 1838 and she had suffered from
Veneration
The beatification process started under
Rivier was canonized on 15 May 2022 by Pope Francis.
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Blessed Marie Rivier". Saints SQPN. 2 February 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Blessed Anne-Marie Rivier". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
- ^ a b c d "A short biography of Blessed Marie Rivier". Prayers4reparation. 9 June 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
- ^ a b Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 149.