APPARITION TO SR TERESA

 Day 207: December 05

Apparition of the Virgin in Paris

to Sr Teresa Emmanuel de la Mère de Dieu, Paris, France


On December 5, 1871, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to an Irish nun Sr Teresa Emmanuel de la Mère de Dieuin Paris, showing her the image of a future Marian army with the Immaculate Conception on its flags.

Sister Teresa Emmanuel de la Mère de Dieu together with St Marie-Eugenie of Jesus (1817-1898) founded the Congregation de l'Assomption of Paris in 1839.

At Christmas 1844, Sr Maria Eugenie de Jesús took over the leadership of the Work, under the guidance of Abbot Théodore Combalot, who had long wanted to find a community of nuns dedicated to the education of the daughters of the liberal bourgeoisie. But the vagueness of Combalot's intentions created some problems.

On the other hand, Br Emmanuel d'Alzon proved to be a valid collaborator, to whom Sr Maria Eugenia gave the idea of founding the Augustinians of the Assumption (commonly called Assumptionists).

The institute received the "decretum laudis" (decree of papal praise) on April 2, 1855. Then after December 5, 1871, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Sr Teresa Emmanuel de la Mère de Dieu, showing her the image of a future Marian army with the Immaculate Conception on its flags.

The Institute was definitively approved by the Holy See on 11 April 1888. The Religious of the Assumption dedicate themselves mainly to the instruction and Christian education of youth.

They are present in Europe (Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden), in Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Niger, Rwanda, Tanzania, Togo), in the Americas (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, USA) and in Asia (Philippines, Japan, India, Thailand, Vietnam); the headquarters is in Paris. As of December 31, 2005, the congregation had 1,263 religious in 170 homes.

Sr Teresa died in Cannes in 1884. She had celestial contacts with visions and contemplations for 45 years, especially after the founding of the Congregation.

In 1894, at the age of 77, Sr Maria Eugenia of Jesus resigned from the leadership of the Congregation for health reasons. Gradually, completely immobilized by paralysis, she died on March 10, 1898.

Mother Maria Eugenia of Jesus was raised to the honors of the altar as blessed by Pope Saint Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini, 1963-1978), on February 9, 1975, and proclaimed a saint by Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger, 2005-2013), on June 3, 2007, in St. Peter's Square in Rome.


St Justin Russolillo Writes...

"In accepting our consecration, Mary takes us as her own and she agrees to protect and defend us against our enemies, by obtaining for us all the graces we need in this life. Our good deeds, passing through her hands before reaching God, are purified of any imperfection and with this added purity, they become even more meritorious. She then imparts to them the beauty of her own virtues and presents them herself to Jesus Christ, who the accepts them even more favorably. Since we have been so generous and unselfish by relinquishing all our goods and placing them at her disposal, she is most generous toward us both in this world and the next, both in the order of nature and of grace."

(Ascension, trans. Louis Caputo, Vocationist Father, Newark, 1997, p. 421)

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