Marie-Eugénie de Jésus
Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Paul VI | |
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Canonized | 3 June 2007, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI |
Feast | 10 March |
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Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (25 August 1817 – 10 March 1898), born Anne-Eugénie Milleret de Brou, was a French religious sister and the foundress of the Religious of the Assumption.[2] Her life was not geared towards faith in her childhood until the reception of her First Communion which seemed to transform her into a pious and discerning individual; she likewise experienced a sudden conversion after hearing a sermon that led her to found an order dedicated to the education of the poor.[3] However, her religious life was not without its own set of trials, for complications prevented her order from receiving full pontifical approval due to a select few causing problems as well as the deaths of many followers from tuberculosis in the beginning of the order's life.[4]
Her beatification was celebrated under Pope Paul VI in 1975 while her canonization was later celebrated on 3 June 2007 under Pope Benedict XVI.[3]
Life
Anne-Eugénie Milleret de Brou was born during the night of 25 August 1817 in Metz as one of five children (three males and two females) to Jacques Milleret and Eleonore-Eugénie de Brou. Her baptism was celebrated on 5 October. Her father was a follower of Voltaire and a liberal which often put him into conflict with his diminishing faith. He made his fortune from banking and politics.[5] Her parents met in Luxembourg when her father was 19 and her mother 22; the two married soon after.[6] In 1822 her brother Charles (1813–1822) died and her little sister Elizabeth died in 1823. She had two older brothers, Eugene (b. 1802) and Louis (b. 1815–16).[citation needed] One distant ancestor was the Italian condottieri Miglioretti who served Francis I.[citation needed]
Young Milleret de Brou grew up in a
Milleret de Brou's mother died of
During
She made a brief
On 30 April 1839 Milleret de Brou founded the Religious of the Assumption with four companions. The congregation began in a small apartment on the Rue Ferou in Paris and celebrated their first Mass together as a religious congregation on 9 November 1839.[5] In March 1841 she was made the Superior of the order and held the position until she resigned due to ill health in 1894. On 14 August 1841 she made her initial vows and then made her perpetual profession on 25 December 1844.
In May 1866 Marie-Eugénie de Jésus set off for
In 1893, Marie-Eugénie de Jésus returned to Rome and met Leo XIII again. In 1894 she attempted to return to Rome but had to stop in Genoa due to falling ill en route. In late 1894 she visited Madrid and San Sebastián. In March 1895 she went with her nurse Sister Marie Michel to Rome and made stops along the train to Montpellier and Nice as well as to Cannes and Genoa; she returned to France three months later.[4]
The aging sister suffered a small
Sainthood
The sainthood process opened in the Paris archdiocese in an informative process that Cardinal Jean Verdier oversaw from 1934 until its closure in 1936; her writings received theological approval on two separate occasions on 1 February 1939[8] and on 8 July 1949. The formal introduction to the cause came on 17 April 1940 under Pope Pius XII and she became titled as a Servant of God.[8]
Cardinal
The miracle for canonization was opened and closed in 2003 in the
Miracle
The canonization miracle was the healing of Risa Bondoc (b. February 1995) who had a condition from her birth that prevented the two halves of her brain from joining. Her mother – who did not know of this condition – had put Risa up for adoption and so Ditos and Carmen Bondoc adopted her and had taken her to specialists, to no avail.[3]
References
- ^ "New patron saint for students". Independent Catholic News. Archived from the original on 2 April 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ a b c "Saint Marie-Eugénie de Jésus". Saints SQPN. 8 March 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ a b c "Sainthood for Mother Marie Eugénie of Jésus". Religious of the Assumption. 29 December 2006. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Saint Marie-Eugénie de Jésus". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Blessed Marie-Eugénie de Jésus". Holy See. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ a b c "St. Marie-Eugénie of Jésus". Religious of the Assumption. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ a b c ""St Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, 10th March", Diocese of Shrewsbury, 4 March 2017". Archived from the original on 19 July 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ a b c d Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 157.
- ISBN 978-2-7122-0400-6.