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49-589: The academy's original buildings were first erected for the Visitation Sisters , and were purchased and modified by the Augustinians for educational purposes. The academy was dedicated by Archbishop Sebastiano Martinelli on September 10, 1899, and officially opened on September 13 as "The Catholic High School of Richmond Borough". This was the first Catholic settlement in Tompkinsville , and

98-569: A girls' school and a home for nursing mothers at Beuerberg Abbey, and afterwards an old people's convalescent home. The abbey still belongs to the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary. The nine Visitation Sisters from Madrid, Spain came to Colombia in 1892 and founded the first Monastery at Santa Fe, Bogotá . The Visitation Sisters came to Ireland in 1955 and founded a Monastery at Stamullen, Co. Meath. When Mother Mary Teresa O’ Dwyer, Superior of

147-541: A parochial school. The Grymes Hill property was used as a retreat house until 1983, acquired by Wagner College in 1993, then heavily damaged by fires, and ultimately razed in 2006. "During its 70 years of existence, Augustinian Academy graduated approximately 1,348 men and added about 250 priests to the Augustinian order." One nationally prominent graduate was Edmund Dobbin from the Class of 1953, who went on to become

196-591: A private devotion into part of the daily duty of the secular clergy as well in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. By the fourteenth century the Little Office was obligatory for all the clergy. This obligation remained until St. Pius V changed it in 1568. The Little Office varied in different communities and locations, but was standardized by Pius V in 1585. It became part of the Books of Hours in Mary’s honour and

245-460: A royal residence. The nuns were officially enclosed the same year, 1654, however soon after, they would have to leave their cloister twice due to threats from hostile armies - this would happen again some centuries later, when the sisters were driven out to house Napoleonic soldiers. Since their founding, Wizytki , as they are called, managed schools and pensions for girls, taking care of the urban poor. The sisters were forbidden from teaching after

294-624: The Brown Scapular . Additionally Tony Horner, a layman, and John Rotelle, a priest, both formulated their own editions of the Little Office which conformed to the revised Liturgy of the Hours , both of these are approved for private use. These newer versions include vernacular translations from the Latin and follow the new structure of each Hour in the Office. Carthusians continue to recite

343-889: The Divine Office in the Catholic Church. It is a cycle of psalms , hymns , scripture and other readings. All of the daily variation occurs in Matins . The text of the other offices remains the same from day to day in the Roman Rite and most other rites and uses. In the Roman Rite there are seasonal variations in Advent and Christmastide . The Gospel antiphons also change in Eastertide, although there are no other changes during that season. The Little Office

392-761: The French city of Caen and took the name Sister Françoise-Thérèse. On the 24 January 2015, the process for Leonie's beatification began and she is now known as Servant of God. Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary , also known as Hours of the Virgin , is a liturgical devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary , in imitation of, and usually in addition to,

441-873: The emblems of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (like devotional scapulars ) as Margaret Mary Alacoque did in the past. At the French Revolution in 1789 when all the religious houses were suppressed many of the French Sisters took refuge in other Catholic countries. The sisters in Rouen, northern France, fled to Portuguese monasteries, having only escaped the guillotine by the death of Robespierre in 1794. In 1803 six sisters left Lisbon in an English packet ship and while at sea they were attacked by French pirates. They were spared because of their nationality (they were French not English) and were returned safely to

490-566: The first world war , the convent came to rely on goodwill for income. The aforementioned convent in Vilnius was disbanded and the sisters forcefully expelled to France in 1841 by the order of Tsar Nicholas I . In 1901, the Visitandines came from Versailles to Poland, where they found a new home in a newly-built convent in Jasło, that received them officially in 1903. Like its sister convents,

539-578: The 1860s, James Burns issued a Latin and English edition. Minor revisions of the Office occurred in the twentieth century, most notably in 1910, as part of Pope Pius X 's liturgical reforms, when the Little Office was suppressed as an epilogue of the Divine Office. In accordance with Pius X's apostolic constitution Divino afflatu of 1910, the Psalter of both the Breviary and the Little Office

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588-649: The First Federation. Sisters of the Second Federation add apostolic work to their contemplative life. The Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy was founded in 1848 as the Wheeling Female Academy in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia and in 1865 assumed its current name. While grades five through twelve were all female, Mount de Chantal's Montessori and Elementary schools were co-ed. The school ceased operations on May 31, 2008, and

637-621: The Madrid House of the Order of the Visitation. In early 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, as religious persecution intensified, most of the community moved to Oronoz, leaving a group of six nuns in the charge of Sr Maria Gabriela de Hinojosa. By July they were confined to their apartment, When a neighbour reported them to the authorities, and in November 1936 their apartment searched. Nevertheless, they refused to seek refuge in

686-716: The Office of the Virgin Mary in addition to the Divine Office. At the same time, despite its decline among religious orders after the Council, the traditional Little Office in English and Latin continue to be printed. Carmel Books in the United Kingdom and several other publishers issued editions usually containing the text as it was in the 1950s. St. Bonaventure Publications publishes an edition edited by Francis Xavier Lasance and originally issued in 1904, which gives

735-764: The Pope commanded under strict precept to the Cassinese Monastery." The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a variation of the Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office). It may have originally been put together to be prayed in connection with the Votive Masses of Our Lady on Saturday, which were written by Alcuin, the liturgical master of Charlemagne’s court. The Little Office did not come into general use before

784-813: The Spanish seaport of Vigo. After a brief sojourn in Spain three of the Sisters made a second attempt to cross from Porto and without further encounters with pirates arrived in Falmouth on 29 January 1804. They later journeyed to Acton and founded the first monastery of the Visitation on English soil on 19 March 1804. They subsequently re-located to Waldron In 1835, the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary of Dietramszell acquired Beuerberg Abbey (Kloster Beuerberg), in Eurasburg , Germany . Between 1846 and 1938 they ran

833-604: The State of New York . The valuation of the academy and church property was about $ 100,000 in 1914, equivalent to $ 3,000,000 in 2023. On May 30, 1909, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the academy's founding, the Ancient Order of Hibernians presented the academy with a handsome 100-foot flagpole and a large American flag. Among the properties that the academy owned, and founded, was a site in Morrisania, Bronx , on

882-429: The Visitandines of Jasło managed a pension for women and girls, although its capacity as a school was not formally recognised; their educational activity ceased with the outbreak of World War I. During World War II, the sisters were once again displaced and the convent first converted to a war hospital and then detonated. The Visitandines returned to the ruins in the 1950s and the slow process of rebuilding begun; in 1966,

931-686: The Visitation Monastery of Roseland, England learned that the Brothers of St. John of God were moving out of Silverstream, she applied to the Bishop of Meath for permission for the Order of the Visitation to enter his diocese. Staffing problems were solved by borrowing three Sisters from America. The Visitation Monasteries of St. Paul Minnesota, Brooklyn New York and Atlanta Georgia each lent a Sister. In 2005, six Visitation Sisters from Manizales, Colombia, came to South Korea. The Monastery of

980-817: The Visitation Order was Marie Martha Chambon , known for having reported a series of revelations from Jesus and having introduced, at the beginning of the 20th century, the devotion of the Chaplet of the Holy Wounds (or "Holy Wounds Rosary"). On May 10, 1998, seven Visitandine nuns of the First Monastery of Madrid, Spain, martyred during the Spanish Revolution of 1936, were beatified in Rome by Pope John Paul II . The nuns were members of

1029-537: The Visitation of Holy Mary ( Latin : Ordo Visitationis Beatissimae Mariae Virginis ), abbreviated VSM and also known as the Visitandines , is a Catholic religious order of Pontifical Right for women. Members of the order are also known as the Salesian Sisters (not to be confused with the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco ) or, more commonly as the Visitation Sisters . The Order of the Visitation

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1078-640: The Visitation of Mary was canonically erected in 1618 by Paul V who granted it all the privileges enjoyed by the other orders. A bull of Urban VIII solemnly approved it in 1626. The special charism of the Visitation Order is an interior discipline expressed primarily through the practice of two virtues: humility and gentleness. The motto of the order is "Live Jesus". A foundation was established in Lyons in 1615 followed by Moulines (1616), Grenoble (1618), Bourges (1618), and Paris (1619). When Francis de Sales died (1622) there were 13 convents established; at

1127-743: The Visitation was established in Jeongok-eup, Yeoncheon County , in Gyeonggi Province , South Korea . The Visitation Sisters ( Polish : Zakon Nawiedzenia Najświętszej Marii Panny , or, siostry wizytki ) were first invited to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by the Polish queen-consort Marie Louise Gonzaga , who was heavily involved as a patron and supporter of the Catholic church. Her wish came to pass with

1176-538: The arrival of 12 nuns to Warsaw. The Warsaw Visitandines' numbers would quickly increase and the convent funded two more, in Kraków and Vilnius , before 1700. Following the partitions , the order was robbed multiple times by foreign armies and it suffered under sanctions imposed by the occupying powers. Currently there are four Visitationist convents in Poland. The first convent was built on Krakowskie Przedmieście , near

1225-478: The church was consecrated again as part of the wider celebrations of 1000-year anniversary of Catholicism in Poland . In 1942, the Visitandines of Vilnius were expelled once again. They were forbidden from wearing the habit and had to live among civilians for the remainder of World War II. In 1946, the bishop Stanisław Adamski invited them to Siemanowice Śląskie . In the year 2000, the convent in Siemanowice

1274-548: The consulates. The following evening, a patrol of the Iberian Anarchist Federation broke into the apartment and ordered all the sisters to leave. They were taken by van to a vacant area and shot. Maria Cecilia, who had run when she felt the sister next to her fall, surrendered shortly after and was shot five days later at the cemetery wall in Vallecas on the outskirts of Madrid. In 2010, in honor of

1323-711: The death of Jane Frances de Chantal in 1641 there were 86. The order spread from France throughout Europe and to North America. As of 2021 , there are about 150 autonomous Visitation monasteries throughout the world. The Order of the Visitation has been present in Portugal since 1784, maintaining today three monasteries: in Braga , in Vila das Aves and in Batalha . The Sisters of the Visitation in Portugal produce and distribute

1372-494: The east side of Andrews Avenue, 200 feet south of Fordham Road. The structure would be a two-story brick school, 54x100 feet, built in 1906 to the design of architect J. O'Connor for $ 50,000, for the now-closed St. Augustine's School . The academy began educating boys for the priesthood in 1921. It expanded to a 16-acre site in the Grymes Hill neighborhood in 1926, but finally closed in 1969. The Tompkinsville property became

1421-534: The example of Mary in her journey of mercy to her cousin Elizabeth. The order was established to welcome those not able to practice austerities required in other orders. Instead of chanting the canonical office in the middle of the night, the sisters recited the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at half-past eight in the evening. There was no perpetual abstinence nor prolonged fasting . The Order of

1470-679: The fall of the January Uprising (1864), as one of the many efforts by the Tsar to erase any Polish national influence in education - along with the pension, the novitiate was closed, meaning no new sisters could be taken in. Wizytki only resumed training novices in 1905. The oldest of the Visitationist convents was also involved in the Warsaw Uprising, when the sisters voluntarily opened their cloister to guests and sheltered

1519-520: The first Mass was said in the neighborhood on November 12, 1899, in McRobert's Hall on Arietta Street. Our Lady of Good Counsel occupied the large chapel in the academy building, along with the small chapel of Our Lady of Consolation, erected in 1902 on Saint Paul's Avenue. The original program of study comprised classical, commercial and grammar courses, and was soon accredited by the University of

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1568-456: The institutes that in place of the Little Office they adopt the Divine Office either in part or in whole so that they may participate more intimately in the liturgical life of the Church". Nonetheless, several post-conciliar editions continue to be issued. The Carmelites produced a revised version of their form of the office, which is still used by some Religious and those who are enrolled in

1617-458: The longest-serving president of Villanova University . In 2009, New York City renamed the academy's former location on Grymes Hill as "Augustinian Academy Way". In 2012, Good Counsel Church dedicated its Augustinian Academy Historical Monument, including the bell from the school's demolished tower. 40°36′58″N 74°05′42″W  /  40.6162°N 74.0951°W  / 40.6162; -74.0951 Visitation Sisters The Order of

1666-644: The main differences were between the Sarum and York uses. Several early printed versions of the English uses of the Little Office survive in the Primers. In the twelfth century, the new foundation of the Augustinian Canons of Prémontré prescribed the Little Office in addition to the eight hours of the Divine Office . The Austin Canons also used it, and, perhaps through their influence, it developed from

1715-508: The name of The Visitation of Holy Mary with the intention that the sisters would follow the example of Virgin Mary and her joyful visit to her kinswoman Elizabeth , an event celebrated in Christianity as "The Visitation" . De Sales invited Jane de Chantal to join him in establishing a new type of religious life, one open to older women and those of delicate constitution, that would stress the hidden, inner virtues of humility, obedience, poverty, even-tempered charity, and patience, and founded on

1764-440: The nuns re-located to the Georgetown Visitation in Washington, D.C. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, before being razed on November 7, 2011. A notable saint of the order is Margaret Mary Alacoque , who reportedly received the revelations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus resulting in the First Friday Devotion , the Holy Hour and the Feast of the Sacred Heart . Another notable figure of

1813-415: The office as it was before Pius X's revision of the Psalter. Baronius Press publishes the 1961 text, which is the most recent edition, in a bilingual English and Latin edition, collecting all the Gregorian chant for the office for the first time in a published edition; while Angelus Press , the publishing arm of the Society of Saint Pius X , also publishes an English/Latin edition of the 1961 text; unlike

1862-529: The prayer of bishop and founder Jan Małachowski when the latter was drowning in the frozen Vistula river. Five nuns from the Warsaw convent moved to Kraków the very same winter, but the enclosed convent proper would only be established in the summer of 1682, the following year. In Kraków too, the sisters were heavily involved with girls' education, which was the only reason the convent was not forced to disband under Austrian occupation . Thanks to its good reputation, it even received foreign students. During and after

1911-401: The public prayer of the Church. They too perform the public prayer of the Church who, in virtue of their constitutions, recite any short office, provided this is drawn up after the pattern of the divine office and is duly approved." However, in the subsequent reforms following the Second Vatican Council, the Little Office was overshadowed by the revised Liturgy of the Hours . The Little Office

1960-411: The revision of the Roman Breviary following the Council of Trent in 1545, the Little Office became an obligation for the ordained only on Saturdays but with the exception of Ember Saturdays, vigils, and the Saturdays of Lent. An English-only version appears appended to versions of Bishop Richard Challoner 's "Garden of the Soul" in the eighteenth century, and with the restoration of the hierarchy in

2009-447: The tenth century. Peter Damian states that it was already commonly recited amongst the secular clergy of Italy and France, and through his influence the practice of reciting it in choir after the Monastic Office, was introduced into several Italian houses. In the eleventh century there were at least two versions of the Little Office extant in England. Pre- English Reformation versions varied considerably, and in England in medieval times

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2058-413: The vulnerable civilian population. As stewards of one of the most prominent historical landmarks in Warsaw, the sisters were also involved in art conservation. Under communist rule , the same convent was a space of contact and exchange with clergy in countries such as Hungary or Czechoslovakia . The convent in Kraków attributes its conception to a miracle performed by Francis of Sales, who answered

2107-402: The worldwide Jubilee Year for the Visitation Order, Pope Benedict XVI granted a plenary indulgence to those who would make a visit to and pray in a Visitation monastery. Léonie Martin (1863-1941), the third sister of Thérèse of Lisieux , became a nun of the Order of the Visitation after many failures and hardships in her life. She received the veil on the 2nd of July 1900 at the Visitation in

2156-426: Was a core text of the medieval and early Reformation primers , a type of lay devotional. The Little Office probably originated as a monastic devotion around the middle of the eighth century. Peter the Deacon reports that at the Benedictine Monastery of Monte Cassino there was, in addition to the Divine Office, another office "which it is customary to perform in honour of the Holy Mother of God, which Zachary

2205-421: Was closed and the sisters moved to Rybnik. The Visitandine sisters in Rybnik are mostly elderly. In the United States there are 10 monasteries in two federations. The monasteries of the First Federation live the purely contemplative life, observing papal enclosure, with solemn vows, and have retained the traditional habit of the order. Of the ten monasteries of the Visitation in the United States, six belong to

2254-408: Was founded in 1610 by Francis de Sales and Jane Frances de Chantal in Annecy , Haute-Savoie , France . At first, the founder had not a religious order in mind; he wished to form a congregation without external vows, where the cloister should be observed only during the year of novitiate , after which the sisters should be free to go out by turns to visit the sick and poor. The Order was given

2303-411: Was not officially revised after the Council, as many Congregations abandoned it in order to adopt the Liturgy of the Hours . According to Pope Paul VI's later Apostolic Letter Ecclesiae sanctae of 6 August 1966, "although Religious who recite a duly approved Little Office perform the public prayer of the Church (cf. Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium , No. 98), it is nevertheless recommended to

2352-408: Was rearranged, producing a different distribution of psalms to be recited at the Little Office than in pre-1910 editions. In 1963, following the Second Vatican Council , Pope Paul VI promulgated Sacrosanctum Concilium which stated: "Members of any institute dedicated to acquiring perfection who, according to their constitutions, are to recite any parts of the divine office are thereby performing

2401-400: Was used by many lay people. Beautifully decorated Books of Hours were the pride of many a noble. Women’s congregations and Third Orders often made it mandatory for their members to pray the Little Office. Down to the Reformation it formed a central part of the primer and was customarily recited by devout laity , by whom the practice was continued for long afterwards among Catholics. After

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