Emilie de Vialar

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Saint Émilie de Vialar, portrait around 1850
His reliquary in Gaillac.

Émilie de Vialar (born September 12, 1797 in Gaillac , † August 24, 1856 in Marseille ) was a French nun and founder of the order . She is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church .

Émilie de Vialar was born as the eldest daughter of the four children of the wealthy couple Baron de Vialar and Antoinette Portal. After attending primary school in Gaillac, she switched to a girls' boarding school in Paris. After finishing school and the death of her mother, she returned home and took on the upbringing of her youngest brother. The pious young woman refused to marry despite violent arguments with her father. She devoted herself to charitable works and used a fortune inherited from her grandfather to purchase a house in Gaillac in 1832. There she founded the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the apparition who received episcopal approbation in 1835.

The sisters dedicated themselves to the sick and poor, they traveled to Algeria, for example, to care for the sick during a cholera epidemic .

The congregation was supported in particular by the Bishop of Marseille , which prompted Émilie de Vialar to move the motherhouse there in 1852. In the 24 years in which the Foundress led the Congregation, these have expanded into over 40 branches in Western Europe, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, as well as in the Middle and Far East. In 1856, the year she died, the first branch was established in Australia.

Pope Pius XII said Sr. Emilie on June 18, 1939 saved the canonization followed on 24 June 1951. Your Memorial Day in the liturgy is the 17th June .

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SURNAME Vialar, Émilie de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vialar, Emily de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nun, founder and saint
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Gaillac
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1856
Place of death Marseille