Adélaïde-Marie Champion de Cicé

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Marie-Adélaïde Champion de Cicé

Adélaïde-Marie Champion de Cicé (born November 5, 1749 in Rennes , Bretagne , † April 26, 1818 in Paris ) was a French religious and founder of the Society of the Heart of Mary .

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She was the twelfth child of the married couple Marie-Rose de Varennes Condat and Jérôme-Vincent Champion de Cicé, who had a total of fourteen children. The noble family Cicé à Bruz (Ille-et-Vilaine) lived in the castle Cicé on the banks of the Vilaine near Rennes. At the age of 20 she joined the Order of the Visitation of Mary , but feels more called to support the poor and care for the sick. She dealt with the new forms of consecrated life and at the end of 1776 wrote the foundations of a new order of women without religious costumes and without a cloister . In 1790 Adélaïde-Marie de Cicé founded the Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary (Société des Filles du Cœur de Marie) in Paris, together with the Jesuit Pierre-Joseph Picot de Clorivière .

The vow includes: availability, a sense of responsibility, frequent contact with the superior and with each other. The approximately 1,400 sisters are currently active worldwide apostolic in the areas of education, health and social affairs. The sisters have been based in Germany since 1897 with branches in Berlin, Bonn, Cologne and Dortmund. A well-known German sister was the leprosy doctor Ruth Pfau , who had lived in Karachi (Pakistan) since 1960 and worked at the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center .

The Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center (MALC) in Karachi was named after Adélaïde-Marie de Cicé.

literature

  • Valerio Valeri : Marie-Adélaïde de Cicé 1749-1818. Mère de Cicé. Fondafrice de la Société des Filles du Cœr de Marie . Paris 1961.
    • Valerio Valeri : Marie-Adélaïde de Cicé 1749-1818. Founder of the Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary . Luthe-Druck, Cologne 1966.
  • John Joyce ( SJ ): Adelaide de Cicé: Foundress of the Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary. A heroine of the French Revolution . Les Presses Monastiques, Paris 1962.
  • André Rayez: Formes modern de vie consacrée. Adélaïde de Cicé and Pierre de Clorivière . Beauchesne, Paris 1966.
  • Jesús Ginés Ortega: Pedro y Adelaida. Una aventura de Dios entre los hombres . Salesiana, Santiago 1989.
  • Marielle de Chaignon: Adélaïde de Cicé 1749-1818 . Editions Nouvelles Cités, Paris 1990.
  • Chantal Reynier: Adélaïde de Cicé dans le contexte historique de la Révolution Française . Hors série n ° 1 de la revue Traces, Paris 1999.
  • Pierre de Clorivière, Adélaïde de Cicé, Marie-Luise Barthélemy (preface): Lettres de prison, 1804–1806 . Éditions Beauchesne, Paris 1997.

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SURNAME Cicé, Adélaïde-Marie Champion de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cicé, Adélaïde-Marie de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French religious and founder of the Society of the Heart of Mary
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Rennes , Brittany
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1818
Place of death Paris