Marguerite Vourgeoys, Congregation of Notre Dame Founder
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Marguerite Vourgeoys, Congregation of Notre Dame Founder
Marian Devotion in Religious Orders: Congregation of Notre Dame (St. Marguerite Vourgeoys)
– Sister Marie Azzarello, C.N.D.
Published in Marian Studies, Volume 53 (2002)
Etienne-Michel Faillon, a priest of St. Sulpice, published Jean Jacques Olier's seventeenth-century work entitled The Interior Life of the Most Holy Virgin in 1866. Faillon added a footnote to Olier's reflection on the Visitation and the Order of the Visitation recently founded by St. Francis de Sales "to adore in this glorious mystery, graces and virtues that Jesus Christ lavished on His divine mother and through her on the Church." Faillon noted: