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Speaks to the 21st<\/sup> Century<\/h2>\n

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Who is Saint Julie Billiart?<\/h3>\n

Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur consider their Foundress, St. Julie Billiart, \u201ca saint for our times\u201d<\/strong> and in all times! She lives today in the minds and hearts of multiple women, men and children throughout the Globe! She is surely a woman of our modern era who showed courage through action, in transforming differences and inequities of her time through the ministry of education!<\/p>\n

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What is her story?<\/h3>\n

In the small village of Cuvilly, north of Paris, France, Marie-Rose Julie Billiart, born on July 12, 1751, was the seventh of nine children of Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Billiart and Marie-Louise Antoinette Debraine.\u00a0 Most of her siblings died in infancy and adolescence.\u00a0 Raised by strong Christian parents, her elder sister, Madeleine and younger brother, Louis-Fran\u00e7ois married and nurtured good Christian families.\u00a0 Marie-Rose Julie, even as a child, heard a call in the whisperings of God within her, and she shared her beliefs and deep love of God by teaching other children in the village. Although an ordinary child in so many ways, the mark of the cross was a distinctive sign of her inner spiritual greatness.\u00a0 Suffering often accompanied her in the family losses, with the robbery of her father\u2019s shop, and her illness brought about by shattered nerves after an attempt on her father\u2019s life (1774).\u00a0 Poor medical treatment in 1782 resulted in the paralysis of her legs.<\/p>\n

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Friends of Julie<\/h3>\n

During her early adulthood, many of the women in the region of Picardy recognized Julie\u2019s spiritual gifts and often sought her insights and inspiration, around her bed!\u00a0 They became her friends in these troubled revolutionary times. Later, Julie would recognize God\u2019s call in her sufferings and her friendships, as well as in the signs of her time, in her country devastated by political and religious upheaval, violence and ignorance. With the French Revolution breaking out in 1789, restrictions became imposed by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy<\/em>, requiring priests to take an oath to the government, not the Church. Priests refusing to do this were considered non-juring<\/em> priests and hunted by authorities. The cur\u00e9 Dangicourt, Julie\u2019s parish priest, was one of those priests, sought by revolutionists and protected secretly by Julie. The friends of Julie, who belonged to the nobility, helped these priests and Julie. \u00a0For about a year, Julie and her niece F\u00e9licit\u00e9 stayed in the ch\u00e2teau of Madame de Pont-l\u2019Abb\u00e9 in Gournay-sur-Aronde. \u00a0When revolutionaries surrounded the ch\u00e2teau, Julie and her niece escaped in a hay cart to Compi\u00e8gne in 1792 where she suffered even more with the loss of speech. While in Compi\u00e8gne, Julie experienced more anxiety and fear in this de-christianized city, occupied by many troops, and from the dispelling of her friends, the Carmelites, driven out of their convent. Sixteen of these Sisters would later be guillotined in Paris!<\/p>\n

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Vision and Relationships<\/h3>\n

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Yet, it was also somewhere in Compi\u00e8gne that Julie had a vision of women around a cross and heard a call from God for a future religious Congregation.\u00a0 She heard these words:<\/span> \u201cThese are the daughters that I will give you in an Institute, which will be marked by my cross.\u201d<\/em> She held onto this experience as a guide for her future.\u00a0 In October 1794, she went with F\u00e9licit\u00e9 to Amiens, at the request of another friend, a countess, Madame Baudoin whose father and husband had been guillotined by the revolutionaries.<\/p>\n

Madame Baudoin believed a crippled Julie would help her to live with her terrible suffering and loss. She rented an apartment in the H\u00f4tel Blin de Bourdon in Amiens for herself and her three daughters and a room for Julie.\u00a0 In this room, owned by the family of Blin de Bourdon, a long, lasting and significant friendship with the Viscountess Fran\u00e7oise Blin de Bourdon began.\u00a0 Madame Baudoin suggested that Fran\u00e7oise visit Julie.\u00a0 At first, Fran\u00e7oise was repulsed by the paralyzed Julie and her inability to speak. Yet, she continued to visit Julie and discovered the depth and genuine spirituality of this suffering woman. With time, from 1794-1795, Fran\u00e7oise began to realize the call of God to her in this friendship for the Gospel and eventually for the Church.\u00a0 At this same time, Madame Baudoin met the Abb\u00e9 Thomas, who was also hiding and ministering in Amiens.\u00a0 He began to visit Julie with spiritual support and the Eucharist at the H\u00f4tel Blin.\u00a0 Fran\u00e7oise, during 1795 and 1797, spent time settling her grandparents\u2019 estate at G\u00e9zaincourt (Baroness de Fouquesolles) and in caring for her ailing father in Bourdon until his death. The written correspondence between Julie and Fran\u00e7oise gives evidence of their bond of friendship, strengthened during those years.<\/p>\n

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Story of Fran\u00e7oise Blin de Bourdon, Viscountess of G\u00e9zaincourt<\/h2>\n

Founding a Congregation of Women Religious:\u00a0 Mission Takes Root<\/h3>\n

In 1797, a new Reign of Terror broke out against the nobility and the priests who refused allegiance to the Civil Constitution. <\/em>The Abb\u00e9 Thomas just escaped attackers in 1799. Julie, F\u00e9licit\u00e9, Fran\u00e7oise and the Abb\u00e9 Thomas fled from Amiens to a chateau in Bettencourt until their return to Amiens in February 1803.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 It was in Bettencourt that Julie met Fr. Varin, Superior of the Fathers of the Faith, in his visit to the Abb\u00e9 Thomas. It was in Bettencourt also that Julie\u2019s call at Compi\u00e8gne began to take root in her teaching of the faith to young people and the confirmation of her mission by Fr. Varin and others.\u00a0 The small community moved into a small residence on the Rue Puits-\u00e0-Brandil in February and then, on August 5, 1803, to a larger space on the Rue Neuve in Amiens.\u00a0 Fr. Varin entrusted the care of some young orphans girls to Julie and asked her to find young women who would care for them without any attention to birth or fortune. On February 2, 1804<\/strong>, three women, Julie Billiart, Fran\u00e7oise Blin de Bourdon and Catherine Duch\u00e2tel committed themselves to God by a vow of chastity and the care and education of young girls.\u00a0 This was the founding day of the Sisters of Notre Dame in Amiens, France!<\/p>\n

(The coup d\u2019\u00e9tat by Napol\u00e9on in 1799<\/strong> signaled the end of the French Revolution.\u00a0 The Concordat of 1801<\/strong> finally gave freedom to the Church!)<\/p>\n

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Cure of Julie and the Mission Evolves<\/h3>\n

After 22 years as a cripple, Julie miraculously regained her power to walk after she made, unaware of the specific intention, a novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in late May 1804.\u00a0 On the fifth day, on June 1, 1804, Fr. Enfantin directed her to stand and to take steps in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.\u00a0 He instructed Julie not to tell anyone yet. \u00a0Her Sisters and the children saw her walking down the stairs some days later at the Rue Neuve. After her cure, she accompanied the Fathers on a successful mission in June to St. Valery-sur-Somme and Abbeville!<\/p>\n

Julie did experience another vision in Amiens on February 2, 1806<\/strong> when she saw her Sisters as a \u201clight of revelation\u201d<\/strong> going across the seas to other parts of the Globe!\u00a0 For the years following, Julie walked many roads in France and Belgium in founding communities of her Sisters and schools for young girls deprived of education at the time. The cross continued to mark her life: in Amiens, abb\u00e9 de Sambucy did not approve of Julie\u2019s travels and foundations and he influenced Msgr Demandolx against her. \u00a0In 1809, the Sisters moved from Amiens, France to Namur, Belgium where their house existed since 1807: Msgr Pisani welcomed them; the Congregation became the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. In 1812, Msgr Demandolx realized his error and called Julie back to Amiens, but she could not maintain the houses in France. In Belgium, Julie established schools to prepare poor children for their duties in life. She saw education for everyone as a basic human right, and teaching as the \u201cgreatest work on earth.\u201d <\/strong>She brought the good news<\/em><\/strong> and hope in the goodness of God to a depressed and deprived generation by preparing vulnerable children for their duties in life, when children cried out for survival. Some priests and some Sisters suspected Julie of being unfaithful to the Church. Julie died on April 8, 1816.\u00a0 She did not live to go beyond continental Europe but her religious Congregation serves today in a variety of ministries, with a priority for education, in 16 countries on five continents.<\/p>\n

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On June 22, 1969<\/strong>, the Church recognized the Sainthood of Julie Billiart, <\/strong>Foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, in a liturgical celebration of her Canonization at the Vatican in Rome.<\/p>\n

Pope Paul VI declared to all the world Julie\u2019s holiness of life and her legacy of<\/span> making known God\u2019s goodness,<\/em> given to our apostolic religious Congregation and to others who claim her as Foundress in our Mission. Sisters, Associates, Mission Volunteers, alumnae\/alumni, administrators, faculty, students, staff in all our schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, clinics, centers, parishes and social agencies celebrate Julie\u2019s Sainthood.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Legacy of St. Julie<\/h3>\n

She was a woman of the modern era<\/strong> who took courage through action<\/strong> in confronting through the ministry of education the inequalities of her time. She recognized the need for basic human rights of life, liberty and equality of persons, proclaimed in the aftermath of the French Revolution. She demonstrates the power and presence of a loving and caring God in her person and in the women who have followed her as Sisters. Julie sent her Sisters to reach out to people \u201cin the most abandoned places,\u201d<\/strong> to give them tools for life, to change lives, dismantle unjust systems and to alleviate poverty through education. St. Julie\u2019s charism, is expressed in her words: \u201cOh! How good is the good God.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

She speaks through her Sisters to another generation in the 21st<\/sup> century!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
July 12, 1751<\/strong><\/td>\nBirth and Baptism of Marie Rose Julie Billiart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 2, 1804\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nVows of Julie Billiart, Fran\u00e7oise Blin de Bourdon, Catherine Duch\u00e2tel as\u00a0 the first Sisters of Notre Dame<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
April 8, 1816\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nThe death of Julie Billiart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 13, 1906<\/strong><\/td>\nBeatification of Julie Billiart. Official liturgical feast day.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 22, 1969<\/strong><\/td>\nCanonization of St. Julie Billiart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Speaks to the 21st CenturyWho is Saint Julie Billiart? Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur consider their Foundress, St. Julie Billiart, \u201ca saint for our times\u201d and in all times! She lives today in the minds and hearts of multiple women, men and children throughout the Globe! She is surely a woman of our modern era who showed courage through action, in transforming differences and inequities of her time through the ministry of education!What is her story? In the small village of Cuvilly, north of Paris, France, Marie-Rose Julie Billiart, born on July 12, 1751, was the seventh of nine children of Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Billiart and Marie-Louise Antoinette Debraine.\u00a0 Most of her siblings died in infancy and adolescence.\u00a0 Raised by strong Christian parents, her elder sister, Madeleine and younger brother, Louis-Fran\u00e7ois married and nurtured good Christian families.\u00a0 Marie-Rose Julie, even as a child, heard a call in the whisperings of God within her, and she shared her beliefs and deep love of God by teaching other children in the village. Although an ordinary child in so many ways, the mark of the cross was a distinctive sign of her inner spiritual greatness.\u00a0 Suffering often accompanied her in the family losses, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6152,"parent":2248,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-2278","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2278\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sndden.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}