Notre Dame d’Arc-en-Ciel

"Notre Dame d’Arc-en-Ciel" is the royal convent and school of Our Lady of the Rainbow. The order first began in Bremagne. It's foundation dates back several centuries. It began at the site of a very old holy well now contained on the grounds of the mother house at Fessy, near Remigny. The well had long been a place of popular devotion, perhaps even pre-Christian, but one spring afternoon, after a very strong rain shower, an apparition of our Blessed Lady appeared from within a rainbow. It was witnessed by three young girls of noble family who had stopped to pray for a sign regarding whom they should wed.”
It is said that our Lady appeared as a young woman arrayed in a sky-blue robe and veil and clasping a rainbow around her shoulders like a shining mantle. No one knows precisely what she told them, but within two or three years, they had gained the support of the Archbishop of Remigny and had persuaded the king to give them a generous endowment of land just outside the city, where they established a convent for the domestic education of young ladies of gentle birth.
For their habit, they adopted the pale blue of the apparition’s robes, with a white wimple and a band of rainbow edging to the veil. The vowed sisters wear it on a blue veil, and also on the bottom of the scapular—which is a sort of tabard or apron and novices take a white veil with rainbow edging. Those who come for the school do not take binding vows. They come for finishing as proper ladies, though some do stay.
Lady Jessamy MacAthan's daughter lives there. She goes by the name of Sister Iris Jessilde. Alyce and Marie de Corwyn and Zoë Morgan go to study there as well. (ITKS) (CM) (TKD)