{"id":378,"date":"2015-05-31T15:15:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T15:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.kriesi.at\/church\/?page_id=378"},"modified":"2022-11-18T20:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T20:02:34","slug":"our-founder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/divineprovinceregion.org\/index.php\/about\/our-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-2qrh7e-8bbdd0b556884b5a9d0e4e471a3d4628\">\n.avia-section.av-2qrh7e-8bbdd0b556884b5a9d0e4e471a3d4628{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/divineprovinceregion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221118-WA0011-300x146.jpg);\nbackground-position:50% 0%;\nbackground-attachment:fixed;\n}\n.avia-section.av-2qrh7e-8bbdd0b556884b5a9d0e4e471a3d4628 .av-section-color-overlay{\nopacity:0.2;\nbackground-color:#000000;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section 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Foundress of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary\u00a0\u201cA life is a path enlightened by a face . Many feel it and live it, but do not dare to think it.\u201d\u00a0Jacques de Bourbon Busset (French writer and diplomat) he face that enlightened the path of Mary of the Passion \u2013 Foundress of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary \u2013 has always been that of God. From her tenderest years until the end of her life, Mary of the Passion \u2013 a profoundly intuitive woman \u2013 let herself be led by the Spirit, ever increasingly aware and in wonderment at his presence in her and around her.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-02cacdf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"02cacdf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Who was she ?<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">How did she let herself be led ?<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-06b80b8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"06b80b8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">Born on 21st May\u00a01839\u00a0\u2013 Tuesday of Pentecost \u2013 in Nantes, France, into a noble Christian family, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Marie Philippine de Chappotin de Neuville, in religion Mary of the Passion, showed from childhood eminent natural gifts and a deep faith, although marked by the rigidity and pessimism of an education with jansenistic tendencies. She sought to know the reason for all around her, and questioning herself, she discovered within her the hidden presence of God. This knowledge would be a path leading her from the Spirit within her to the Spirit present in all and in the whole world, an opening towards more light. It would also be for her a path of conversion which, with the help of her mother in particular, would help her, little by little, to place her proud, independent Tand passionate nature at the service of her innate opening out to others, especially to the poor. The successive deaths of a much beloved girl cousin and of her two sisters marked her very painfully. In April\u00a01856, during a retreat, she first experienced a call from God who revealed Himself in her, during the Eucharistic benediction: \u201cI will always love you more than you will love me\u201d and call her to a life of total consecration. The unforeseen death of her mother delayed its realisation. In December 1860, with the consent of the Bishop of Nantes, she entered the Poor Clares whose ideal of the simplicity and poverty of Saint Francis of Assisi attracted her. On 23rd January\u00a01861, while still a postulant, she had another profound experience of God who invited her to offer herself as \u201ca victim\u201d for the Church and the Pope, according to the expression of the time. This experience marked her for life. A short time after, having become seriously ill, she had to leave the monastery. When she was well again, her confessor directed her towards the Society of Marie R\u00e9paratrice. She entered with them in\u00a01864\u00a0and on the following 15th August, in Toulouse, she received the religious habit with the name of Mary of the Passion. In March\u00a01865, while still a novice, she was sent to India, to the Apostolic Vicariate of Madurai, confided to the Society of Jesus. The R\u00e9paratrice sisters there had the task of formation of sisters of an autochthonous congregation as well as being involved in other apostolic activities. It was there, that she pronounced her temporary vows on 3rd May\u00a01866. Because of her gifts and virtues, she was nominated local superior and then, in July\u00a01867, she was named provincial superior of the three convents of the R\u00e9paratrice. Under her direction the works of the apostolate developed, peace \u2013 troubled by former tensions \u2013 was re-established in the communities where fervour and regularity flourished again. But, as Francis of Assisi found his path through illness and prison, Mary of the Passion would find hers by means of passing through trials coming from what she cherished: the congregation to which she belonged and, later the Church, in its leaders. God continues to act in her \u2026 In\u00a01874, a new house was founded in Ootacamund in the Vicariate of Coimbatore, confided to the Paris Foreign Mission Society.\u00a0However in Madurai the dissensions became exacerbated to such an extent that, in\u00a01876\u00a0some religious, among them Mary of the Passion, were driven to leave the Society of Marie R\u00e9paratrice, reuniting, at Ootacamund under the jurisdiction of the Vicar Apostolic of Coimbatore, Monsignor Joseph Bardou MEP. \u00ab Where are you leading me?\u00bb Mary of the Passion in\u00a01903\u00a0Felt responsible for her sisters, but not knowing towards what God was leading her, let herself be guided. So she opened out to the unforeseen of God which jostled, upset, surprised, deinstalled. Without having desired it, Mary of the Passion became a foundress. \u00ab I founded the Institute like a donkey that is whipped along\u2026\u00bb In November\u00a01876, Mary of the Passion went to Rome to regularize the situation of the twenty separated sisters and, on 6th January 1877, obtained the authorization from Pius IX to found a new Institute, specifically destined for Universal Mission, and was to be called the Missionaries of Mary. Following a suggestion of the Roman Congregation for the missions (formerly Propaganda Fide), Mary of the Passion opened a novitiate in Saint-Brieuc in France, where very soon numerous vocations came along. In April\u00a01880, and in June\u00a01882, the Servant of God went to Rome to resolve the difficulties coming from oppositions which persisted and which were threatening to hinder the stability and growth of the young Institute. This latter journey, on June\u00a01882, marked an important stage in her life: in fact she was authorized to open a house in Rome and, through providential circumstances, found again, through Father Rapha\u00ebl Delarbre, who would become her spiritual director and her adviser, the Franciscan orientation that God had indicated to her twentytwo years earlier. She then entered into relationship with the servant of God, Father Bernardin de Portogruaro, minister general of the Order of Friars Minor who later on would support her in her trials, with a fatherly solicitude. On 4th October\u00a01882, In the Church of the Arac\u0153li, she was received into the Third Order of Saint Francis of Assisi and on 15th August\u00a01885,\u00a0her young religious family would become officially the Institute of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. Her constitutions would be definitively approved eleven years later, on 11th May\u00a01896. From one event to another, God led her and supported her\u2026 And her way of looking at the History of nations and of the Church changed: It gave her the world as a horizon In March\u00a01883,\u00a0due to latent opposition, Mary of the Passion was deposed from her office of Superior of the Institute, because of strong oppositions coming from the exterior. However, after an inquiry ordered by Leo XIII, her innocence was fully acknowledged and at the Chapter of July 1884 she was re-elected. It was then that her spirituality, matured in suffering, would be ready to inspire and support the expansion of the mission of the Institute in the Church. During the 27 years that she guided the Institute in the Church, Mary of the Passion founded 88 communities, in 24 countries, in 4 continents in the most distant and dangerous lands, where the Gospel would be both \u201cgood news\u201d and \u201chuman promotion.\u201d Experience and the vicissitudes of life, in the light of the Spirit and with the help of her Franciscan advisers, purified, little by little, her gifts of leadership and natural pride. The Foundress was an open woman who was interested in everything and spread around her the life and charm flowing from her heart of a mother: with deep intelligence, quick understanding, a firm will, creativity, daring, prudence and energy. Her missionary zeal knew no limitations in order to respond to the calls of the poor and the abandoned. She was particularly interested in the promotion of women and the social question: with intelligence and discretion she offered collaboration to the pioneers who were working in these spheres, which they appreciated very much. Her intense activity drew its dynamism from contemplation of the great mysteries of faith. For Mary of the Passion, all led back to the Unity-Trinity of God Truth-Love, who communicates Himself to us through the paschal mystery of Christ. It was in union with these mysteries that, in an ecclesial and missionary dimension, she lived her vocation of offering. Jesus in the Eucharist was for her, \u201cthe great missionary of the Institute\u201d and Mary, in the disponibility of her \u201cEcce\u201d and \u201cFiat\u201d, traced the path of the donation without reserve to the work of God. This mysticism \u2013 which contemplated the \u201cMost High\u201d who dwells where the \u201cLowest\u201d \u2013 opened her Institute to the horizons of universal mission, accomplished in Francis of Assisi\u2019s evangelical spirit of simplicity, poverty and charity. She took great care, not only of the external organization of the works, but above all of the spiritual formation of the religious. Gifted with an extraordinary capacity for work and of collaboration, she found time to compose numerous writings on formation, whilst by frequent correspondence she followed her missionaries dispersed throughout the world, relentlessly calling them to a life of holiness and of fraternal union beyond all frontiers. In\u00a01900\u00a0her Institute received the seal of blood through the martyrdom of seven Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, who were beatified in\u00a01946\u00a0and canonised during the Great Jubilee of the year\u00a02000.\u00a0To be the spiritual mother of these missionaries who had known how to live to the shedding of their blood, the ideal proposed by her, was for Mary of the Passion, both a great sorrow, a great joy and a time of great emotion. Three weeks before her death, Mary of the Passion invited the sisters to live in this thought: \u201cI am consecrated to God, my end is Love\u201d. This declaration reveals the basic orientation of her life, but also the source from which she drew, identified herself and belonged. \u00ab Leave me alone with the good God\u2026\u00bb Mary of the Passion Serenely, on 15th November\u00a01904, in Sanremo (Italy), after a short illness, Mary of the Passion went to meet this God of Love, whom she had sought, contemplated and loved during her whole life. Her mortal remains repose in a private oratory of the Generalate House in Rome. \u00abYou will go to Heaven\u2026\u00bb Pope Leo XIII, 19 December\u00a01902, (imposing his hands on Mary of the Passion) After a long process, the cure of a religious stricken with \u00abPulmonary and vertebral Tuberculoses and Pott\u2019s disease \u00bb was recognised on 5th March\u00a02002\u00a0as being a miracle granted by God through the intercession of Mary of the Passion and on 20th October 2002 \u2013 World Day of Missions \u2013 she was finally beatified by Pope Jean Paul II, in Rome, in Saint Peter\u2019s Square.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-145ug2-2b2a39b452a80aa164276dfadc8ab1bb\">\n#top .flex_column_table.av-equal-height-column-flextable.av-145ug2-2b2a39b452a80aa164276dfadc8ab1bb{\nmargin-top:-60px;\nmargin-bottom:0px;\n}\n.flex_column.av-145ug2-2b2a39b452a80aa164276dfadc8ab1bb{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:30px 30px 30px 30px;\nbackground-color:#f0f0f0;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-145ug2-2b2a39b452a80aa164276dfadc8ab1bb av_one_third  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  no_margin flex_column_table_cell av-equal-height-column av-align-top '     ><p><div  class='avia-builder-widget-area clearfix  avia-builder-el-11  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '><section id=\"search-3\" class=\"widget clearfix widget_search\">\n\n<form action=\"https:\/\/divineprovinceregion.org\/\" id=\"searchform\" method=\"get\" class=\"\">\n\t<div>\n\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"\ue803\" id=\"searchsubmit\" class=\"button avia-font-entypo-fontello\" \/>\n\t\t<input type=\"text\" id=\"s\" name=\"s\" value=\"\" placeholder='Search' \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<span class=\"seperator extralight-border\"><\/span><\/section><section id=\"text-2\" class=\"widget clearfix widget_text\"><h3 class=\"widgettitle\">Next Event starting in:<\/h3>\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><\/div>\n\t\t<span class=\"seperator extralight-border\"><\/span><\/section><section id=\"avia_fb_likebox-2\" class=\"widget clearfix avia-widget-container avia_fb_likebox avia_no_block_preview\"><div class=\"avia-preview-headline\">Enfold Facebook Likebox<\/div><div class=\"avia-preview-info\">Title: Follow us on Facebook<\/div><div class=\"avia-preview-info\">URL: https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/Franciscan-Missionaries-of-Mary-in-Ghana-Liberia-267588160380669\/<\/div><div class=\"avia-preview-in-front\">Content is only rendered in frontend.<\/div><span class=\"seperator extralight-border\"><\/span><\/section><section id=\"newsbox-2\" class=\"widget clearfix avia-widget-container newsbox\"><h3 class=\"widgettitle\">Latest News<\/h3><ul class=\"news-wrap image_size_widget\"><li class=\"news-content post-format-standard\"><a class=\"news-link\" title=\"A Century of Faith, a Legacy of Love\" href=\"https:\/\/divineprovinceregion.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/a-century-of-faith-a-legacy-of-love\/\"><span class='news-thumb '><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"36\" height=\"36\" src=\"https:\/\/divineprovinceregion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-36x36.png\" class=\"wp-image-1573 avia-img-lazy-loading-1573 attachment-widget size-widget wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/divineprovinceregion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/divineprovinceregion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/divineprovinceregion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-180x180.png 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 36px) 100vw, 36px\" \/><\/span><strong class=\"news-headline\">A Century of Faith, a Legacy of Love<span class=\"news-time\">May 28, 2025 - 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