Rosalie Rendu

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Rosalie Rendu (born September 9, 1786 in Confort ; † February 7, 1856 in Paris ) was a French Vincentine woman who was beatified in 2003 .

life and work

The way to the Vincentine Sisters

Jeanne-Marie Rendu grew up as the eldest of four girls from a farmer in the parish of Lancrans near Bellegarde-sur-Valserine ( Département Ain ). She was the godchild of Jacques-André Émery , her grandfather's personal friend. The family offered shelter to priests persecuted by the French Revolution, including Bishop Joseph-Marie Paget (1727–1810) of Geneva . With the support of the local pastor François Colliex (1766–1841), Jeanne-Marie went to a boarding school for the Ursulines in Gex (Ain) and from there two years later with the help of the Gex pastor Pierre-Marin Rouph de Varicourt (1755–1825) Vincentians of Carouge near Geneva.

50 years of work in Paris

After a postulate from the Vincentians of Gex, she moved in 1802 with two other postulants to the Vincentians of Paris in their parent house (Rue du Vieux-Colombier No. 11) in the 6th arrondissement . She was dressed as a Vincentian woman (especially with the conspicuous cornette, a large starched bonnet), took the religious name Rosalie and moved into rue de l'Épée-de-Bois No. 5 on May 10, 1803 (parish St-Médard im Faubourg Saint-Marcel ) the house from which she served the children, the poor and the sick for 50 years (and from 1815 as superior) and rose to Parisian fame as an apostle on Rue Mouffetard . Thanks to courage, ability and a natural gift for dealing with people of all classes, she heroically survived two revolutions and three cholera epidemics (1832, 1849 and 1854) and influenced social Catholicism around Frédéric Ozanam .

Recognition and honors

In 1852, Minister of the Interior, Duke von Persigny, came personally to present her with the Legion of Honor Cross , an honor she accepted with disapproval. On March 18, 1854, she received a visit from Emperor Napoleon III. and his wife Eugénie and was happy about the positive consequences for their wards. When she died in 1856 at the age of 69, around 50,000 people followed her coffin to the Cimetière Montparnasse .

In her colleague Armand de Melun (1807–1877) she found a biographer of high standing, whose book was translated into German that same year. In Paris, the avenue de la Sœur-Rosalie in the 13th arrondissement has been named after her since 1868 . In the 5th arrondissement , two Catholic schools bear her name.

beatification

The beatification process, which began in 1953, was completed in 2003 with her beatification by Pope John Paul II .

Literature (chronological)

  • Armand de Melun: Vie de la soeur Rosalie. Fille de la Charité . Poussielgue, Paris 1857 (13th edition 1929).
    • (German) Sister Rosalie. A picture of life from the latest contemporary history. Manz, Regensburg 1857.
    • (German) Life of Sister Rosalie from the Order of the Sisters of Mercy in Paris. Aufschlager, Innsbruck 1857.
    • (Italian) Vita di suor Rosalia figlia della carità. Centenari, Milan 1857.
    • (English) Life of Sister Rosalie of the Order of Charity. Gill, Dublin 1881.
    • (English) Life of Sister Rosalie. A sister of charity. Norwood 1915.
  • Charles Baussan: Figures de femmes. Une fille de saint Vincent-de-Paul au Quartier Mouffetard. La sœur Rosalie intimate . Librairie des Saints-Pères, Paris 1913.
  • Jeanne Danemarie: A travers trois révolutions. Soeur Rosalie Rendu fille de la charité 1786–1856 . Plon, Paris 1947.
  • Henri Desmet: Sœur Rosalie, une fille de la Charité. Cinquante ans d'apostolat au quartier Mouffetard . Pierre Krémer, Paris 1950.
  • Agnès Richomme: Soeur Rosalie. L'apôtre du quartier Mouffetard . Éditions Fleurus, Lyon 1965.
  • Claude Dinnat: Soeur Rosalie Rendu ou l'amour à l'oeuvre dans le Paris du XIXe siècle . L'Harmattan, Paris 2001.
  • Louise Sullivan: Sister Rosalie Rendu. A daughter of charity on fire with love for the poor . Chicago 2006.
    • (French) Soeur Rosalie Rendu. Une passion pour les pauvres. Médiaspaul, Paris 2007.
    • (Spanish) Sor Rosalía Rendu. Una Hija de la Caridad inflamada en amor a los pobres. La Milagrosa, Madrid 2010.
  • Matthieu Brejon de Lavergnée: Histoire des filles de la Charité. Vol. 2. Le temps des cornettes. XIXe – XXe siècle . Fayard Editions, Paris 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Groupe Scolaire Soeur Rosalie Louise-de-Marillac, 32, rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire
personal data
SURNAME Rendu, Rosalie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rendu, Jeanne-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Vincentian who was beatified in 2003
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Confort
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1856
Place of death Paris