Fondateurs de l'Ordre de la Visitation - Médaille par L. Penin à Lyon

Fondateurs de l'Ordre de la Visitation - Médaille par L. Penin à Lyon - obverseFondateurs de l'Ordre de la Visitation - Médaille par L. Penin à Lyon - reverse

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Features

Location France
Type Commemorative medals › Religious medal
Composition Silver plated copper
Weight 13.3 g
Diameter 32 mm
Thickness 2 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
341012

Commemorative issue

Medal of the Founders of the Order of the Visitation of Saint Mary, created June 6, 1610Automatically translated

Obverse

Within a quatrefoil pattern studded with small crosses, a large haloed bust of Saint François de Sales (1567-1622), facing right. French legend all around, the engraver's name under the bust and the town where the medal was issued.Automatically translated

Lettering:
S. FR. DE SALES - DOCT. DE L'EGL. - PRIEZ POUR N.
L.PENIN A LYON

Unabridged legend:
Saint François de Sales, Docteur de l'église, priez pour nous.
Ludovic Penin à Lyon

Engraver: Ludovic Penin

Reverse

Within a quatrefoil pattern studded with small crosses, a large haloed bust, facing right, of Saint Jeanne Françoise Frémyot, Baroness de Chantal (1572-1641), holding a large cross and the Sacred Heart. French legend all around, engraver's name below the bust and city of issue.Automatically translated

Lettering:
Ste. Jne. FRANCOISE - DE CHANTAL - PRIEZ POUR N.
L.PENIN A LYON

Engraver: Ludovic Penin

Edge

Plain

Mint

Lyon, France (?-1858)

Comments

The Order of the Visitation of Saint Mary (Latin: Ordo Visitationis Beatissimae Mariae Virginis) or the Visitandines is a female contemplative monastic order of pontifical right.

In 1604, Jeanne-Françoise Frémyot, Baroness de Chantal, a 28-year-old widow with four children, met François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, in Dijon. They struck up a close spiritual friendship, which led her to move to Annecy and found the Visitation Sainte-Marie order.

Jeanne de Chantal, under the spiritual guidance of François de Sales, agreed to lead a group. He wanted it to be open to all women, even those who were rejected by other monastic orders: elderly, widowed or disabled women. François de Sales proposed to his "daughters" a life of humility and self-effacement. He wanted to endow the Church with daughters of prayer, without pomp. He chose the name Visitation for two reasons. The first was Mary's humility in the Gospel episode of the Visitation, when the Virgin Mary, pregnant with Christ, goes to help her elderly cousin Elizabeth, who is pregnant with John the Baptist. The second was that the feast of the Visitation (July 2 at the time) "was not very solemnized".

The first group was formed on June 6, 1610, and included Jeanne de Chantal, Jacqueline Favrenote, Jeanne-Charlotte de Bréchard and Anne-Jacqueline Coste. They settled in Annecy, in the Duke of Savoy's estates, in a small house on the outskirts of Annecy, the "Maison de la Galerie", along the road leading to the Capuchin friars' house, made available to them by Duke Charles-Emmanuel I of Savoy. As fate would have it, the foundation planned for Pentecost was only completed for Trinity Sunday, which this year fell on St. Claude's Day... By October, daily communion had been established in the small community.

After a year of novitiate under the guidance of François de Sales, the four women of this small community made their profession of faith on June 6, 1611 (Wikipedia).Automatically translated

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