NOTES
APPENDIX I
1. This Sister, who had received the veil as a lay Sister, in the Visitation at Annecy, July 2, 1614, merited through her innocence and true simplicity the special favor of Francis de Sales (cf. her biography in The Lives of Seven Religious Sisters of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary , by Mother de Chaugy, Annecy: Jacques Clerc, 1659).
2. in comparison.
3. The Manuscript of Mans.
4. Is. 28:14.
5. Cant. 1:15.
6. Jn. 19:30.
7. Ps. 116:11.
8. Matt. 17:5.
9. Matt. 17:8.
10. 2 Sam. 12.
11. Job 10:15.
12. St. Bernard, Sermon 54,9.
13. Ps. 13:6.
14. Rev. 3:16.
15. Manuscript of Bourges.
16. Archives of the Visitation of Annecy , Visitation Series, Subseries Foundation #3.
17. Archives of the Visitation of Annecy , Visitation Series, Subseries Foundation #3.
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APPENDIX II
18. Archives of the Visitation of Annecy , Visitation Series, Varia Subseries, #4, 635-9.
19. Claude Francis Roget entered the Gallery, July 22, 1610. She died June 14, 1613, after receiving the last Sacraments from Francis de Sales.
20. Archives of the Visitation of Annecy , Visitation Series, Varia Subseries, #6.
21. Ms. #6, 102.
22. This matter is treated in the Twelfth Conference, on Obedience , given a little before Ash Wednesday, March 7, 1612.
23. Cf. also the Twelfth Conference, on Obedience, p. 143 ff.
24. Ms. #6, 106-9.
25. Mary-Margaret Milletot, daughter of Benigne Milletot, councilor of the Parliament of Dijon, friend and correspondent of Francis de Sales, entered the Visitation, August 14, 1610.
26. Marie Jacqueline Favre, daughter of Antoine Favre, president of the Senate of Savoy and dear friend of Francis de Sales, entered the Gallery, June 6, 1610, with St. Jane de Chantal. She took part in the foundation of the First Monastery at Lyons (1615), founded Montferrand (1620) and Bourg-en-Brusse (1627). She died at Chambery, June 14, 1637.
27. ean-Charlotte de Bréchard, who belonged to a noble family of Bourgogne, entered the Gallery with St. Jane de Chantal and Marie-Jacqueline Favre. She founded the Monastery of Moulins (1616), Nevers (1620), and Riom (1623) where she died in 1637.
28. Pérrone-Marie de Châtel entered the Gallery, July 26, 1615. She was part of the foundation of the First Monastery of Lyons (1615). She was the first Superior at Grenoble (1618) and founded the Monastery Aix-en-Provence, etc. She died at Annecy, October 21, 1637.
29. Claude-Marie Thiollier, daughter of a lawyer in the Senate of Savoy, received the habit on June 6, 1611. She helped found the Monasteries at Chambery (1624) and Rumilly (1629), where she died in 1637.
30. Claude-Agnès Joly de la Roche was sent in July 1620 to help make the foundation at Orleans.
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31. Marie-Aimée de Blonay, daughter of Claude de Blonay, friend of Francis de Sales, entered the Gallery, June 25, 1612. She was part of the foundation of the First Monastery at Lyons (1615), where she was Superior from 1622 to 1628 and from 1631 to 1637. She died at Annecy, June 15, 1649, after having been one of the co-founders of the Visitation.
32. Marie-Martha Legros, daughter of a judge in the parliament of Dijon, received the habit on September 21, 1612, helped in the foundation of the Monasteries at Bourges (1618) and of Poitiers (1633), where she died, June 25, 1651.
33. Constitution 6, Oeuvres XXV, 26-64.
34. A Cistercian of the Reform introduced by Dom Jean de la Barrière in the 16th century.
35. Ms. #4, 665-7. This is perhaps only a variant of Manuscript #6, 106-9, but we put it here because of its relationship to what follows.
36. Jacqueline Coste was born in Savoy of very poor parents. She was a shepherdess and a servant in Geneva when she met Francis de Sales and then again in Annecy in 1604. She entered the Gallery as an out-Sister the same day of the foundation of the Visitation.
37. Manuscript #4, 667-9.
38. Manuscript #4, 670-2
39. Manuscript #4, 672-4.
40. cf. the Seventh Conference, On Different Questions, p. 77 .
41. Manuscript #4, 674-8.
42. cf. the Seventh Conference, On Different Questions , and the First Conference , The Obligation of the Constitutions , p. 28.
43. Manuscript #4, 688-9.
44. Archives of the Visitation of Annecy , Visitation Series, Foundation Subseries #1. The Monastery of Lyons was founded on February 2, 1615, by St. Jane de Chantal.
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45. He came from Avignon, where Charles Emmanuel I had asked him to accompany the Court of Savoy to congratulate Louis XIII on his victory over the Protestants in the South of France and conclude a treaty with him.
46. Jacques Olier of Verneuil, Administrator of Justice at Lyons, father of Jean-Jacques Olier, founder of the Society of St. Sulpice.
47. cf. Note 29 of this Appendix.
48. II Kings 4:9,10.
49. Marie Aymar, born in Valence in 1576 of Calvinist parents, married Matthieu Pouchelon, likewise a Calvinist and a notary. She converted to Catholicism and, after being widowed, she consecrated herself totally to God in prayer and service of the neighbor. She died at Valence, April 1, 1648.
50. Pierre Coton (1564-1626), an apologist of the Society of Jesus, confessor of Henry IV (1608) then of young Louis XIII, restored and supported his community in France.
51. cf. Collection of Questions which were made to Our Most Holy Father in our monastery of Lyons, p. 256.
52. Jean Suffren (1571-1641), a Jesuit, confessor of Marie de Médici in 1615, then of Louis XIII (1625-1631).
53. cf. the Last Conference , p. 274.
54. cf. the Last Conference , p. 307.
VARIANTS
1. This particular conference has been published for the first time in the Collection entitled, Archives de la Visitation d'Annecy. Série Visitation, sous-série Fondations, #1 , printed at Paris in 1642. In this work, the text is put in order and shortened. We give in our work the whole text of the Paris manuscript as it had already been published, with some small variations, in the 1933 edition.
2. E1933. "and this is what I would do...."
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