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Single Pages No. 29 • August 2012 Founded in 1997 and published biannually by the International Commission for Salesian Studies (ICSS) of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales Beatification of Fr. Louis Brisson on 22 September 2012 As reported in ICSS Newsletter , No. 27 (July 2011), on 19 December 2009, Pope Benedict XVI, acting on the recommendation of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, declared that Fr. Louis Brisson (1817-1908), founder of the Oblates and Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales, “practiced the theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity toward God and neighbor as well as the cardinal virtues of Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Fortitude and related virtues to a heroic degree.” As necessary as miracles are for the cause for beatification and canonization to move forward, establishing the servant of God’s heroic practice of the virtues can sometimes prove no less challenging. 1 With this threshold crossed, Fr. Brisson’s cause has moved forward in a timely fashion. Pope Benedict XVI’s authorization on 19 December 2011 of the promulgation of the decree affirming the validity of a miracle attributed to Fr. Brisson’s intercession cleared the way for his beatification. The miracle in question was the 1953 healing of an eight- Figure 1.1. The official logo for the beatification of Fr. Louis Brisson (1817- year-old Ecuadoran boy whose foot was so badly crushed by a 1908), founder of the Oblates and Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales, is the tractor wheel that medical specialists believed he would never fruit of the collaborative effort of the Oblate Sisters at the Motherhouse in Troyes and Fr. Herbert Winklehner, OSFS. The “Brisson Cross” combines Fr. Brisson’s again walk normally. Subsequent to a novena of prayers to profound faith with his fondness for constructing clocks. The nineteenth century Fr. Brisson by the Oblate Sisters, the boy’s wound healed without witnessed a creative explosion of industrial development and technological any physical therapy or orthopedic devices. Later, he moved to the advances. Fr. Brisson was very much at home in this world, but for him science and United States, where he eventually enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. technology were never to be isolated or separated from faith in God. The team of physicians who studied the medical documentation concluded that the healing could not be attributed to natural causes or to specific medical intervention. Following this medical being prepared by the Dutch Salesian Family. On Friday evening, consultation, a panel of theologians from the Congregation for the 21 September, a prayer vigil will be held in preparation for the Causes of Saints studied the entire matter, and on 7 June 2011 beatification. On Sunday, 23 September, a Mass of Thanksgiving unanimously determined that this miraculous healing was will be celebrated in Plancy, the place of Fr. Brisson’s birth and obtained through the sole intercession of Fr. Brisson. death. On Monday, 24 September, a Mass of Thanksgiving will be The Pope’s decree of 19 December 2011 means that celebrated at the Visitation Monastery in Troyes, where Fr. Brisson Fr. Brisson will be formally “beatified,” after which he will be served as chaplain and confessor for over forty years, and known as “Blessed” Louis Brisson. Unlike canonization, whereby a encountered Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis, the “Good Mother” person is solemnly raised to sainthood to be acknowledged by the (1793-1875), who played a key role in the foundation of the universal Church, beatification is an act by which a public cult for Oblates and Oblate Sisters. the servant of God is permitted, but limited to specific places such Beginning on Monday afternoon, 24 September, and as Fr. Brisson’s native diocese of Troyes, and by particular groups continuing on Tuesday morning, 25 September, the International such as the religious communities he founded. Commission for Salesian Studies (ICSS) will sponsor a symposium Fr. Brisson’s beatification is scheduled to take place on on the newly blessed’s ministry and spirituality. This program is Saturday, 22 September 2012, in the cathedral of Troyes. His open to all who wish to attend. The venue will be the Motherhouse Eminence Cardinal Angelo Amato, SDB, Prefect of the of the Oblate Sisters in Troyes, and Mother General Françoise- Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, has been designated by Bernadette Beuzelin, OSFS, will inaugurate the symposium and Pope Benedict XVI to preside at this ceremony. A number of welcome the attendees. Dr. Wendy M. Wright, Professor of events and programs will also take place prior to and after the Theology and John C. Kenefick Chair in the Humanities at beatification, including the premier of a DVD about Fr. Brisson Creighton University, Omaha, NE, and an internationally 2 ICSS NEWSLETTER renowned Salesian scholar, will give the keynote address. Her very happily. It is a form of relaxation for me, and at the topic will be the 19th-century Salesian Pentecost as the context same time it brings me closer to God. 2 for Fr. Brisson’s life, ministry, and spirituality. Sr. Anne Elizabeth Eder, OSFS, President of the Board of Trustees of Mount Aviat A website dedicated to Fr. Brisson’s beatification has also been Academy, Childs, MD, will give the afternoon’s second created by Fr. Winklehner and Fr. Thomas Dailey, OSFS, Director presentation, which will consider Fr. Brisson and the foundation of the Salesian Center for Faith & Culture at De Sales University, and Salesian-Oblate charism of the Oblate Sisters. Center Valley, PA. It may be accessed at: www.louisbrisson.org. On Tuesday morning, the symposium will resume with Mass Fr. Brisson’s beatification marks the penultimate stage of his in the crypt of the Oblate Sisters Motherhouse where Fr. Brisson cause, which was initiated in Troyes in 1938, and introduced in is buried. Two talks will follow: Rome in 1964. When the decree of Fr. Joseph F. Chorpenning, OSFS, validity of the process was issued on ICSS Chairman, on Fr. Brisson and 6 October 1995, Fr. Brisson was the foundation and Salesian-Oblate then designated a “Servant of God.” charism of the De Sales Oblates, The monumental undertaking of and Sr. Madeleine Thérèse compiling, editing, and classifying Dechambre, OSFS, the postulator the necessary documentation to for Fr. Brisson’s cause, on its history establish Fr. Brisson’s heroic practice and development. The symposium of the virtues was undertaken and will conclude with closing remarks successfully completed by Fr. Roger by Fr. Aldino Kiesel, OSFS, Superior Balducelli, OSFS, a former Superior General of the De Sales Oblates. General of the De Sales Oblates. Symposium papers will be published Fr. Balducelli’s work made it possible in the ICSS Newsletter , possibly over for Fr. Yvon Beaudoin, OMI, two or more issues, if necessary, in a former consultor to the order to make them available to the Congregation for the Causes of entire Salesian family. Saints, to write Fr. Brisson’s The official logo for the documented biography ( Aloisii beatification (Figure 1.1) is the fruit Brisson, Sacerdotis et Fundatoris of the collaborative effort of the Oblatorum et Oblatarum S. Francisci Oblate Sisters at the Motherhouse Salesii [1817-1908]: Positio super in Troyes and Fr. Herbert virtutibus [Rome, 1998]; a shortened Winklehner, OSFS (ICSS member version of this work in English and webmaster). The “Brisson translation has been published as Cross” combines Fr. Brisson’s Father Louis Brisson [1817-1908]: profound faith with his fondness for A Documented Biography [Wilming- constructing clocks (Figure 1.2)—a ton, DE: Wilmington-Philadelphia symbol of kairos , which in the New Province of the Oblates of Testament means “the appointed St. Francis de Sales, 2008]). Figure 1.2. This large astronomical clock took Fr. Louis Brisson (1817- time in the purpose of God” (cf. 1908), founder of the Oblates and Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Fr. Beaudoin’s biography provided Mark 1:15), the time when God Sales, nearly twenty years to construct. It is presently housed at the the basis for the Congregation for acts. The nineteenth century Oblate Sisters Motherhouse in Troyes. (Photo: Herbert Winklehner, the Causes of Saints’ review, witnessed a creative explosion OSFS) examination, and recommendation of industrial development and concerning the heroicity of technological advances. There was a flood of new inventions, and Fr. Brisson’s virtues. The final stage of the cause would be hundreds of patents were sought and granted. Fr. Brisson was very canonization, which requires the documentation and much at home in this world, but for him science and technology authorization of another miracle, this one taking place after were never to be isolated or separated from faith in God. beatification. 3 Accordingly, Fr. Brisson comments on the first clock he invented: NOTES Do you know why I have made this clock? Because it gives an idea of what God has created. The better the 1. See, for example, Joseph F. Chorpenning, OSFS, “The 200th Anniversary clock, the better the reflection of God’s creation. The of Saint John Neumann’s Birth (1811-2011),” American Catholic Studies movement of the earth and stars set and guide our lives. 122/3 (Fall 2011): 89-94, esp. 92-93. 2. Quoted in Dirk Koster, OSFS, Louis Brisson (Noorden: Bert Post, 2008), 81. The clock continues to tick away until the hour arrives 3. The ample resources provided by Frs. Winklehner and Dailey on the for our departure from this earth. Then we are taken up website, www.louisbrisson.org, were especially helpful in the preparation of into God where there is no time. I work on this clock this article. ICSS NEWSLETTER 3 Salesian Art Essay The First Portraits of St.
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