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Day: August 12, 2025

By Thought for the DayPosted on August 12, 2025Posted in Quotes

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking. (Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, +1641)

Jane Frances de Chantal and her Visitation

By John Paul Meenan, EditorPosted on August 12, 2025Posted in Saints, Editor's Corner

Jane Frances Fremiot (+1641) was a beautiful, refined young woman from Burgundy, betrothed to the handsome Baron de Chantal at 21 years old – a veritable Austen-esque marriage of true minds, in a French mode; and a happy union it was, until the Baron was killed by an harquebus in a tragic hunting accident, leaving[…]