Life of the venerable Louise de Marillac (Mademoiselle le Gras)
Subtitle: foundress of the company of Sisters of Charity
Publisher: Benzinger Brothers
Published: 1917
Place of publication: New York; Cincinnati; Chicago
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: Dedication 3; title: Letter of Mgr. Mermillod, Bishop of Hebron, Vicar-Apostolic of Geneva 9; title: Letter of M. Fiat, Superior-General of the Priests of the Mission and Daughters of Charity. 12; title: Preface; title: CHAPTER I.; title: 1591 — 1613.; title: de Champigny diverts her from this project — Her Marriage 19
label: The Marillac Family — Birth of Louise — Her Education — The Monastery of Poissy — Her Fathers Mouse — She thinks of joining the Capuchius — Father Honor; title: CHAPTER II.; title: 1613 — 1623.; title: Birth of her son — Her acquaintance with St. Francis de Sales and with Mgr. Camus, Bishop of Belley, her director — Her Vow not to remarry — Interior trials 34; title: CHAPTER III.; title: 1623 — 1625.; title: St. Vincent de Paul — The Marillacs and the Carmelites — Sickness and Death of M. Le Gras 48; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: 1625 — 1629.; title: Louise's change of Residence — Her rule of Life — The Confraternities of Charity — The First Servant of the Poor 59; title: CHAPTER V.; title: 1629 — 1631.; title: St. Vincent sends Mile. Le Gras to visit the Confraternities of the Province — Mile. Pollalion — Pestilence in France — Death of Marguerite Naseau — Maternal Solicitude of Louise 79; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: 1632 — 1634.; title: Fortune and Disgrace of the Uncles of Louise — Marshal de Marillac dies on the Scaffold — and the Chancellor in Prison — Mile. Le Gras does not allow herself to be cast down by Affliction, but pursues, courageously, the Path of her good Works — She receives at her house the First Daughters of Charity — Her Vow to Consecrate herself with them — First Conference by St. Vincent de Paul 95; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: 1634 — 1636.; title: The Rivals of Louise in Charity — Mme. Goussault and the visit to the Hotel Dieu — Le Gras removes with her Daughters to a Chapelle 125; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: 1636 — 1640.; title: New Works are undertaken at La Chapelle — Catechism — Ladies' Retreat — The Spanish Army in Picardy — Mile. Le Gras gives an Asylum to the Fugitives — She sends two of her Daughters to Richelieu — Opening of the Foundling Asylum — Death of Mme. Goussault — Voyage to Angers — The first Hospital attended by the Daughters of Charity 150; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: 1641.; title: Mile. Le Gras is Established at the Faubourg Saint- Denis — Her Interior Life, from her Writings and the Souvenirs of the first Sisters — Interior Combats and Victories — Her Humility and Charity for her Daughters 179; title: CHAPTER X.; title: I64I I646.; title: Progress and Constant Development of the Work — Origin of the Title Sister-Servant — First Daughters of Charity authorized to make their Vows — M. Portail is named Director — Establishment of a Council — Accidents and Divine Protection 199; title: CHAPTER XI.; title: 1646 — 1648.; title: St. Vincent and Mile. Le Gras solicit Approbation for the Company — The Sisters are asked for in Brittany — The Approbation granted, but the Articles lost — Divisions and Difficulties at Nantes — Changes at the Foundling House — Celebrated Peroration of St. Vincent de Paul 214; title: CHAPTER XII.; title: 1649 — 1652.; title: Mile. Le Gras and her Daughters during the Fronde — Civil War and Charity — The Sisters in Picardy, Champagne, and in the Beauce of Paris — Death of Mgr. Camus and of Mme. de Lamoignon — Marriage of Michel Le Gras — Birth of a Little Daughter 237; title: CHAPTER XIII.; title: 1652 — 1655.; title: The Elect among the Elect — Daughters of Charity in Poland — Hospital of the Name of Jesus — Founding of the General Hospital — Bossuet preaches there the Panegyric of St. Paul — His Opinion of the Daughters of Charity 261; title: CHAPTER XIV.; title: 1655.; title: Approbation given by the Ordinary of Paris to the Company of the Daughters of Charity — Session of the Establishment — The Spirit inspired by Mile. Le Gras — Wisdom of her Government. 282; title: CHAPTER xv.; title: 1657 — 1659.; title: Louis XIV. recognizes the Existence of the Company — Developments of the Work in France — The Daughters of Charity in the Army — They are asked for in Madagascar — Death of Mile. Pollalion and of Barbara Angiboust 304; title: CHAPTER XVI.; title: 1659 — 1660.; title: Last Sickness of Mile. Le Gras — Her Death — Her Funeral — Her Tomb 317; title: CHAPTER XVII.; title: Conference on the Virtues of Mile. Le Gras — Translation of her Remains — What became of them during the Revolution and afterwards 330