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SUMMARY:Saint Jeanne Jugan
DESCRIPTION:Image: Statue of Saint Jeanne Jugan at the Sisters of the Poor in Valladolid | photo by Rodelar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint Jeanne Jugan\nSaint of the Day for August 30\n(October 25\, 1792 – August 29\, 1879)\nSaint Jeanne Jugan’s Story\nClick to hear audio clip ►\nBorn in northern France during the French Revolution—a time when congregations of women and men religious were being suppressed by the national government\, Jeanne would eventually be highly praised in the French academy for her community’s compassionate care of elderly poor people. \nWhen Jeanne was three and a half years old\, her father\, a fisherman\, was lost at sea. Her widowed mother was hard pressed to raise her eight children alone; four died young. At the age of 15 or 16\, Jeanne became a kitchen maid for a family that not only cared for its own members\, but also served poor\, elderly people nearby. Ten years later\, Jeanne became a nurse at the hospital in Le Rosais. Soon thereafter\, she joined a third order group founded by Saint John Eudes. \nAfter six years she became a servant and friend of a woman she met through the third order. They prayed\, visited the poor\, and taught catechism to children. After her friend’s death\, Jeanne and two other women continued a similar life in the city of Saint-Sevran. In 1839\, they brought in their first permanent guest. They began an association\, received more members\, and more guests. Mère Marie of the Cross\, as Jeanne was now known\, founded six more houses for the elderly by the end of 1849\, all staffed by members of her association—the Little Sisters of the Poor. By 1853\, the association numbered 500 and had houses as far away as England. \nAbbé Le Pailleur\, a chaplain\, had prevented Jeanne’s reelection as superior in 1843; nine years later\, he had her assigned to duties within the congregation\, but would not allow her to be recognized as its founder. In 1890\, the Holy See removed him from office. \nBy the time Pope Leo XIII gave her final approval to the community’s constitutions in 1879\, there were 2\,400 Little Sisters of the Poor. Jeanne died later that same year\, on August 30. Her cause was introduced in Rome in 1970. She was beatified in 1982\, and canonized in 2009. \n\nReflection\nJeanne Jugan saw Christ in what Saint Teresa of Calcutta would describe as his “distressing disguises.” With great confidence in God’s providence and the intercession of Saint Joseph\, she begged willingly for the many homes that she opened\, relying on the good example of the Sisters and the generosity of benefactors who knew the good that the Sisters were doing. They now work in 30 countries. “With the eye of faith\, we must see Jesus in our old people—for they are God’s mouthpiece\,” Jeanne once said. No matter what the difficulties\, she was always able to praise God and move ahead.
URL:https://www.thefranciscanfriars.org/event/saint-jeanne-jugan/2017-08-30/
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