Daughters of Mary Immaculate
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Venerable Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon |
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10 June 1789 Feugarolles, Lot-et-Garonne, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 10 January 1828 (aged 38) Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, Kingdom of France |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Attributes | Religious habit |
| Patronage | Marianist Sisters |
Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon (10 June 1789 – 10 January 1828) – in religious "Marie of the Conception" – was a French Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-founder of the Marianist Sisters which she founded alongside Blessed William Joseph Chaminade. Her initial desire was to become a Carmelite nun though this desire never materialized; she instead focused herself on serving the poor wherever and whenever she could. Her order was founded with the intention of serving the poor though combining certain aspects of the Carmelite charism with this impulse to balance the aspirations of the two co-founders.
Her cause for beatification opened in the mid-1960s and culminated on 5 June 1986 after Pope John Paul II confirmed her heroic virtue and titled her as Venerable; Pope Francis approved her beatification in mid-2017 (confirming a miracle attributed to her) and she will be beatified in Agen on 10 June 2018.
Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon was born on 10 June 1789 in the Castle de Trenquelléon in Feugarolles to the Baron Charles de Trenquelléon (1754 – 18 June 1815) and Marie-Ursule de Peyronnencq de Saint-Chamarand (1763–1846). Her baptism was celebrated just hours after her birth in the local parish church. On her maternal side she was related to Saint Louis IX and Robert of Clermont.
In 1791 – in the initial stages of the French Revolution her lieutenant father led his armed forces as part of the Prince of Condé's attempt to rescue King Louis XVI. The attack was repulsed and her father fled to England for refuge in November 1791. On 26 January 1792 her brother Charles Polycarp was born. Her mother – on 27 September 1797 – was granted permission to leave France with her children to seek refuge in Spain. The following spring the Baroness and her children (along with other refugees from France) were expelled from Spain at the request of the French government and took refuge instead in neighboring Portugal. It was there that the Baron was able to rejoin his wife and children not long after this in July 1798. In 1789 permission was granted for the expelled refugees to return to Spain (on 8 September 1800 she settled in San Sebastián) and it was there that she made her First Communion on 6 January 1801 in the church of Santa María. Later on 14 November 1801 permission was granted for the de Trenquelléon's to be able to return to their ancestral home. On 12 June 1799 her sister Désirée was born. On 6 February 1803 she received her Confirmation from the Bishop of Agen.
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