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SUMMARY:Saint Louise de Marillac
DESCRIPTION:Saint Louise de Marillac\nSaint of the Day for March 15\n(August 12\, 1591 – March 15\, 1660)\nhttps://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/SODMar15.mp3\nSaint Louise de Marillac’s Story\nBorn near Meux\, France\, Louise lost her mother when she was still a child\, her beloved father when she was but 15. Her desire to become a nun was discouraged by her confessor\, and a marriage was arranged. One son was born of this union. But Louise soon found herself nursing her beloved husband through a long illness that finally led to his death. \nLouise was fortunate to have a wise and sympathetic counselor\, Francis de Sales\, and then his friend\, the bishop of Belley\, France. Both of these men were available to her only periodically. But from an interior illumination she understood that she was to undertake a great work under the guidance of another person she had not yet met. This was the holy priest Monsieur Vincent\, later to be known as Saint Vincent de Paul. \nAt first\, he was reluctant to be her confessor\, busy as he was with his “Confraternities of Charity.” Members were aristocratic ladies of charity who were helping him nurse the poor and look after neglected children\, a real need of the day. But the ladies were busy with many of their own concerns and duties. His work needed many more helpers\, especially ones who were peasants themselves and therefore\, close to the poor and able to win their hearts. He also needed someone who could teach them and organize them. \nOnly over a long period of time\, as Vincent de Paul became more acquainted with Louise\, did he come to realize that she was the answer to his prayers. She was intelligent\, self-effacing\, and had physical strength and endurance that belied her continuing feeble health. The missions he sent her on eventually led to four simple young women joining her. Her rented home in Paris became the training center for those accepted for the service of the sick and poor. Growth was rapid and soon there was the need for a so-called “rule of life\,” which Louise herself\, under the guidance of Vincent\, drew up for the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. \nMonsieur Vincent had always been slow and prudent in his dealings with Louise and the new group. He said that he had never had any idea of starting a new community\, that it was God who did everything. “Your convent\,” he said\, “will be the house of the sick; your cell\, a hired room; your chapel\, the parish church; your cloister\, the streets of the city or the wards of the hospital.” Their dress was to be that of the peasant women. It was not until years later that Vincent de Paul would finally permit four of the women to take annual vows of poverty\, chastity and obedience. It was still more years before the company would be formally approved by Rome and placed under the direction of Vincent’s own congregation of priests. \nMany of the young women were illiterate. Still it was with reluctance that the new community undertook the care of neglected children. Louise was busy helping wherever needed despite her poor health. She traveled throughout France\, establishing her community members in hospitals\, orphanages and other institutions. At her death on March 15\, 1660\, the congregation had more than 40 houses in France. Six months later Vincent de Paul followed her in death. \nLouise de Marillac was canonized in 1934 and declared patroness of social workers in 1960. \n\nReflection\nIn Louise’s day\, serving the needs of the poor was usually a luxury only fine ladies could afford. Her mentor\, Saint Vincent de Paul\, wisely realized that women of peasant stock could reach poor people more effectively\, and the Daughters of Charity were born under her leadership. Today\, that order–along with the Sisters of Charity–continues to nurse the sick and aging and provide refuge for orphans. Many of its members are social workers toiling under Louise’s patronage. The rest of us must share her concern for the disadvantaged. \n\nSaint Louise de Marillac is the Patron Saint of:\nSocial workers
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