Helene de chappotin biography of albert

“The founders are our roots, not so that we can follow them in any way, but so that it will bear fruit.

Helene de chappotin biography of albert

To return to the beginnings… of our Institutes is to go to that root to drink from it, as from a fountain, and to be able to respond in a just manner.” Pope Francis, The strength of Vocation.

Born Hélène de Chappotin in 1839 in Nantes, in religion, Mary of the Passion, Foundress of the Institute of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in 1877, died in 1904 in San Remo, beatified in 2002 by Pope John Paul II.

A classic journey of consecrated life in the missionary impulse of the 19th century? Not really! Her path was strewn with pitfalls and ruptures, enlightened by a profound experience of God. Mary of the Passion, her name sums up her life.

Rootedness:

Hélène, Marie, Philippine de Chappotin, was born in Nantes on May 21, 1839 to Charles de Chappotin, Public Works Engineer, and Sophie Galbaud du Fort; families of the aristocracy whose his