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Title: Life of the Reverend Mother Jeanne Chézard de Matel, foundress of the Order of the Incarnate Word and the Blessed Sacrament, according to original manuscripts / by the Reverend Mother Saint Pierre of Jesus ; translated from the original French by Henry Churchill Semple
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Saint Pierre de Jésus, mère
Subjects: Chézard de Matel, Jeanne, 1596-1670 Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament -- Biography Mystics -- France -- Biography Superiors, Religious -- France -- Biography
Publisher: San Antonio, Tex. : Convent of the Incarnate Word
Contributing Library: Catholic Theological Union
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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lace inthy spirit all that I please. The extracts made from theseArchetypes shall be admirable and one day they shall causeastonishment to those who see what I have imparted to thee,without any study or labor of thy own. Let those talk whoare ignorant of My favors bestowed upon thee, to whom Ihave given the knowledge of sublime mysteries. My Divine Love finally told me that I had nothing tofear and that I have in myself the original and substantialimage of the Father Avhich is the Word in which I saw thou-sands of Avonders; that I must not apprehend any shortcom-ings in my written or oral discourses, since He Avas myLight, my Teacher and my Truth, and that from the year1619, Avhen I received the command of my director to Avrite,He had promised not to permit me to AA^rite errors and to con-tinue to teach me and to give me an abundance of light.1 After this Testimony of testimonies, nothing else seemsworth Avhile recording. LWriting-s of Mother de Matel, Vol. T, p. 959. TESTIMONIALS G01
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Heart of Mother de Matel.Her Autobiography, her books, and various objects used by her CHAPTER XXXTT The Monastery of Paris After the Death of Mother de Matel 1670—1672 The storm which was let loose upon the monastery ofParis, and cast a gloom on the last hours of Mother de Matelburst forth still more violently after her death. The destruc-tion, which her prophetic vision had shown to her as certain,is now to be completed.1 Mother de Bely consecrates morethan three hundred pages of her Manuscript Memoir to thissad event. We can give only a brief sketch of it. Dora Victor Tixier, the Prior of the Abbey of Saint-Ger-main, came some days after the death of the Foundress toproceed, with a commissioner, to take away the seals, which,according to his orders, had been placed upon the apart-ments occupied by the venerable Mother. He hoped to findthere a quantity of money and therefore was unwilling topermit any one of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word to bepresent at his inspection. He admi

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