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Title: Life of the Reverend Mother Jeanne Chézard de Matel, foundress of the Order of the Incarnate Word and the Blessed Sacrament, according to original manuscripts / by the Reverend Mother Saint Pierre of Jesus ; translated from the original French by Henry Churchill Semple
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Saint Pierre de Jésus, mère
Subjects: Chézard de Matel, Jeanne, 1596-1670 Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament -- Biography Mystics -- France -- Biography Superiors, Religious -- France -- Biography
Publisher: San Antonio, Tex. : Convent of the Incarnate Word
Contributing Library: Catholic Theological Union
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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o go out tohonor the new Primate of the Gauls, like Jephtes daughterwas to receive from the mouth of that father of her soul,the sentence which was to draw from her and her daughtersso many tears, not because of involuntary virginity, but onaccount of the resistance opposed to their ardent desires tooffer up, for the honor of the Incarnate Word, the solemnsacrifice of their virginity and of their whole being. As soon as the Bull had been received, measures weretaken to present it to the Archbishop under circumstanceswhich were most favorable for its acceptance. A distin-guished Jesuit, whose eminent virtues and his dignity asProvincial had acquired for him the esteem and venerationof all, was requested to be the bearer of the document toHis Eminence and to solicit from him its execution. Thiswas Father Milieu. The preceding year, the intercession lSee on the following page the fac-simile of the Bull of Pope UrbanVIII for the monastery of Lyons. 169 170 LIFE OF JEANNE CHEZARD 1)E MATEL
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OPPOSITION OF MONSIGNOR DE RICHELIEU 171 of Mother de Matel had snatched him from the jaws ofdeath. The great age of the holy religious and the ex-treme gravity of his malady, left no hope of saving hislife. But the Incarnate Word replied to the supplicationsof His beloved spouse, by letting her taste some of thebeatitude which He had prepared for His faithful servant,and showed her the place where his body was destinedto repose Avhile awaiting the glories of the resurrection.Without allowing herself to be discouraged, Mother de Matelcontinued her earnest appeal and repeated: Dear Lord,1 pray You that this Father may not leave us so soon. Heis a saint who will increase his merits during the few moreyears of life that I ask for him and for whom Your Provi-dence will reserve the happiness of which it would nowwish to put him in possession.m The Divine Master was vanquished by this confidenceand promised to restore health to the venerable patient.This promise was soon realized. The cure

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