Luise of Savoy (Blessed)

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Luise von Savoyen (born December 28, 1462 in Bourg-en-Bresse , † July 24, 1503 in Orbe , Free County of Burgundy , today Canton of Vaud / Switzerland ) was a French noblewoman and later a nun in the Order of the Poor Clares .

Life

Luise was a daughter of Amadeus IX. , Duke of Savoy and Jolande of France , a sister of the French King Louis XI. At the behest of her uncle, she married Hugo II of Chalon (1450-1490), Lord of Châtelguyon, Dole and Orbe, son of Louis von Chalon-Arlay and Eleanor of Armagnac in August 1479 . The couple lived in Nozeroy and are said to have distinguished themselves there through charity and simple life. After her husband's death in 1490, she became a clarissess in the monastery of Orbe , where she lived according to the rules of the order until her death.

Aftermath

After the Poor Clares had decided in 1530 to leave their monastery, threatened by the Reformed Bernese, their relics - together with those of their sister-in-law, the Blessed Philippine of Chalon (around 1455–1507) - were widowed on the initiative of Philibert of Luxembourg transferred by Luise's nephew Jean de Chalon-Arlay to the Poor Clare Monastery of Nozeroy and buried in the monastery church there in 1531. The monastery church was destroyed in the course of the French Revolution in 1792, but the bones were found in 1839, exhumed again and placed in a reliquary before being transferred to Turin in 1840/42 . There they were buried in the palace chapel under the shrine of Amadeus of Savoy, who had been beatified in 1677.

Luise of Savoy was on August 12, 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI. beatified . Her feast day is July 24th. She is shown in the Poor Clare habit in prayer position with a cross.

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  1. ↑ Abbé Jeunet, quoted in Maurice Zermatten, p. 196.
personal data
SURNAME Luise of Savoy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Blessed ones
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1462
PLACE OF BIRTH Bourg-en-Bresse
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1503
Place of death Orbe VD