Claudine Thévenet
|
Blessed Claudine Thévenet |
|
|---|---|
Painting.
|
|
| Religious | |
| Born |
30 March 1774 Lyon, Rhône, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 3 February 1837 (aged 62) Lyon, Rhône, French Kingdom |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 4 October 1981, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Canonized | 21 March 1993, Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | 3 February |
| Attributes | Religious habit |
| Patronage | Religious of Jesus and Mary |
Saint Claudine Thévenet (30 March 1774 - 3 February 1837) in religious Marie of Saint Ignatius - was a French Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Religious of Jesus and Mary. Thévenet witnessed the horrors of the French Revolution - she saw two of her brothers executed - and went on to cater to the needs of dissolute children while using her congregation to provide local girls with a religious education.
Thévenet was beatified on 4 October 1981 and was later canonized as a saint on 21 March 1993.
Claudine Thévenet was born in the Kingdom of France on 30 March 1774 as the second of seven children.
Thévenet studied at the Saint-Pierre-les-Nonnains convent in her adolescence. The French Revolution saw the destruction of the old government and the formation of a new government that soon led a violent massacre in her hometown in which two of her brothers were killed in public on 5 January 1794 via the guillotine. Her brothers died forgiving their killers and the pair beseeched their distraught sister to do the same - their final words to her were: "Forgive as we forgive". Not long after this she began to work with working women in her town and soon came into contact with the priest André Coindre with whom she formed a small group that evolved into the Religious of Jesus and Mary on 6 October 1818 dedicated to educating girls; the order was founded on the hill of Croix Rousse. Thévenet assumed a new religious name and began to serve as the order's superior even after the death of Coindre in the 1820s; her order received pontifical approval on 31 December 1847 from Pope Pius IX after her death.
The new Association of the Sacred Heart - formed in 1815 - elected her as its president at some point in which her work included caring for destitute children. On one occasion Coindre found two shivering children and bought them to her. The order later relocated in 1820 to Fourviere and received diocesan approval in Puy in 1823 and in Lyon in 1825.
...
Wikipedia