Our Associate Program is beginning it's 25th anniversary year and there is a nice article about their first meeting of the season. Be sure to check out page 2 where there is a prayer written in the spirit of Jean-Pierre Medaille, SJ. Next Wednesday, October 6, 2010, is his 400th birthday. Check back later this week for another prayer service for this birthday. I'm still in the process of preparing it for next week's staff prayer.
The picture at the top left is a depiction of Fr. Medaille that is part of a larger picture. This painting is in the Archives of the Sisters of St. Joseph in LePuy, France. When we visited there, our guide explained that it was actually painted long after Jean-Pierre Medaille, SJ, and the first Sisters of St. Joseph were officially recognized by the Bishop of LePuy, Henri deMaupas [October 15, 1650] The second photo is of the full painting that is in the archives. You can see Fr. Medaille in context in this picture. Once again...remember...this was painted many years [I don't want to give the date and not be accurate] after the actual event that it depicts.
The September 29 issue of Soundings Update is on our website at http://www.csjboston.org/su-Sept-29-2010.pdf
The picture at the top left is a depiction of Fr. Medaille that is part of a larger picture. This painting is in the Archives of the Sisters of St. Joseph in LePuy, France. When we visited there, our guide explained that it was actually painted long after Jean-Pierre Medaille, SJ, and the first Sisters of St. Joseph were officially recognized by the Bishop of LePuy, Henri deMaupas [October 15, 1650] The second photo is of the full painting that is in the archives. You can see Fr. Medaille in context in this picture. Once again...remember...this was painted many years [I don't want to give the date and not be accurate] after the actual event that it depicts. 
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Wasn't Napoleon related to him?
ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard that. What I do know is that after the French Revolution, Cardinal Fesch, the Cardinal of Lyon, asked Mother St. John Fonbonne to reorganize the Sisters of St. Joseph in the Diocese of Lyon. Cardinal Fesch was Napoleon's maternal uncle. But this was almost 200 years after Jean-Pierre Medaille was born. I haven't heard of any relation between JPM and Napoleon. If they are related, it's several generations removed.
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