Anne marie javouhey biography of martin

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– ; Feast- July 15

This French girl organized her farm family in daily silence and prayer. During the Revolution, she rescued people, warned priests and taught children the catechism. A private vow of virginity in led her to try religious life unsuccessfully. She set up a school for poor children, and in she and other women began the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny. Her own effort to join the order’s growing missionary work in French colonies was cut short by illness. Despite controversy, the order flourished and Anne Marie is highly regarded for her treatment of blacks in the 19th century.

Charism: Liberate to Empower

for Gospel values; to believe in and risk everything in complete confidence in order to promote freedom and justice for the poor and oppressed.

Blessed Anne Marie Javouhey was the first woman to cross the seas and work for the emancipation of slaves in the far distant countries of The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny was founded in France on 12th May Its Foundress, Blessed Anne Marie Javouhey, was born on 10th November, at Jallanges, near Suerre, Burgundy. Convinced of her vocation to care for the orphans and sick, Anne-Marie Javouhey set out to fulfil her mission and overcame any problem that came her way. She was the first woman missionary, who dared to search for God’s Will for her in the many challenges of her times; to stand as a witness Africa and South America. She reached out to countries all over the World where she established Convents, Schools, Hospitals, Mental Homes, Leper Settlements, Refugee Centres for the emancipated slaves.

Walking in the footsteps of Blessed Anne Marie the Foundress, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny are present in 60 different countries in the 5 Continents: -

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Senegal

St. Anne Marie Javouhey was responsible for the revival of Roman Catholic missions in Africa. The suppression of the Jesuits from to , the ravages of the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic wars left the missions in a state of almost total collapse. These events occurred just before an explosive revitalization of religious orders, however, which resulted in a new missionary era that would parallel, and in many ways be part of, Western colonial expansion. Javouhey was the pioneer in this missionary movement at a critical juncture.

Javouhey was the daughter of a peasant family that hid priests who had refused to take the anticlerical oath of allegiance to the French Revolution. One of the priests encouraged her to pursue a religious life, and she left for the freedom of Switzerland to pursue her goal. With three companions, she began a community of sisters, which was formally founded in as the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny.

The first St. Joseph mission was on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion (), but more important were the mis

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