RELIGIOUS OF JESUS AND MARY

Religious of Jesus and Mary –  Sister Dina-Marie Adelaide, R.J.M.                                                                                                      Religieuses de Jésus-Marie                                                                                                               “Qu’il est bon le bonDieu!”  –  “How good God Is!”                                                                                            “Praise be Jesus and Mary forever!”

Founders:  Saint Claudine Thévenet  (Mère Marie Sainte-Ignace – the “Saint of Lyon”)                                     Abbé André Coindre

Place:  Lyon, France

Year:  1818 A.D.

Her Charism:  This Sister who embraces the Ignatian spirituality spends her life in single-minded fidelity to God’s Holy Will and acts with the sole desire of pleasing Him.  Her gift is to make Jesus and Mary known and loved by means of a Christian education in all social milieus with a preference for the weakest, most shameful, and more deprived among the young, women, and the poor.  Charity, merciful kindness, and forgiveness are the apples of this Sister’s eyes.  As she forms souls for Heaven, she is disposed to suffer everything from others and not make anyone suffer.  Her life is a hymn of glory to Jesus and His Mother Mary.