... and the sisters offer him a framed quilling workBefore his departure, Archbishop Thomas Gullickson blessed all of usRetreat for the Institute’s deacons before their priestly ordination.Solemn Mass of Saint John the Baptist sung by the scholaExposition of the Blessed Sacrament immediately afterMeals served by the sistersDuring our Prior General's stay at the House of the Eucharistic Heart, he imposed the Institute’s Oblate Cross to Abbé Pampelonne.The sisters were happy to be present and to pray during this ceremony in recognition of all the help that this good abbé brings to them!The Apostolic Nuncio of Switzerland, Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, honored us with his presence for the day.Monsignor Wach and Canon Valadier show him the house: the chapel.the kitchenthe sacristythe guest accommodations where the future priests had their retreat conferencesMonsignor offers the nuncio oil and wine from GriciglianoOn the day when the priestly ordinations were taking place in Florence, the sisters of Switzerland took a trip to Valais to admire a Statue of Christ the King erected high up in 1935.The sisters met some children there who were intrigued by the reliquary cross of one of our sisters.Church of St. Peter in Chains, in Lens, commune that possesses the statueCloister of the Abbey of Saint Maurice, about sixty kilometers from LensThis abbey shelters the relics of Saint Maurice and his companions, members of the Theban Legion, martyred around the year 300 AD.It is held by regular canonsAscent to the small chapel called Notre Dame du Scex, built in the hollow of the cliff facing the abbey.487 steps separated us from this solitary site, which has welcomed many hermits over the centuries...Return, at sunsetOn July 5th, we met with some of our special benefactors, to whom we owe our installation here in Switzerland, for a very family meal!Passage of a family close to the sistersOn August 14, at ComplineMass of the Assumption of the Blessed VirginSmall aperitif on this feast dayLunch with our guests and some of the faithfulDeparture for the processionAugust 21, Feast of Saint Jane de ChantalIn front of the shrine of our patron saint in AnnecyThe room where Saint François de Sales was born disappeared during the destruction of the castle bearing the same name in 1630, by order of the king of France Louis XIII. This chapel reminds us of its locationThis cross was erected to mark the place where the chapel of the old citadel stood. Saint Francis de Sales, praying to God, received there the vision of the Order of the Visitation which he was to found with Saint Jane de Chantal.In front of the castle of Thorens, which the de Sales family also owned, a few hundred meters away from the destroyed castle.
