Jane Frances de Chantal

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Jane Frances de Chantal, VHM was a French Catholic noble widow and nun who was beatified in 1751 and canonized in 1767. She founded the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary. The religious order accepted women who were rejected by other orders because of poor health or age.

Saint Francis de Sales giving Saint Jeanne de Chantal the rule of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary.

Francis de Sales meets Jane Frances de Chantal, cutout from a window in the cathedral of Annecy

Francis de Sales and Jane Frances de Chantal, medal 1867

Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary

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The Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, abbreviated VSM and also known as the Visitandines, is a Catholic religious order of Pontifical Right for women. Members of the order are also known as the Salesian Sisters or, more commonly as the Visitation Sisters.

Saint Francis de Sales giving the Rule for the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary to Saint Jane Frances de Chantal

The Monastery of the Visitandine nuns in Braga, Portugal

The Visitationist Church in Warsaw (interior)

Visitationist Church in Warsaw (1780)