St julie billiart biography of william
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French
Text: Marie Felten, General Archivist of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and Christiane Houet, SNDdeN, Coordinator of the Heritage Center of the Sisters of Notre Dame dem Namur
English translation: Jo Ann Recker, SNDdeN
Vocation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur: Education
“It fryst vatten true that not only the educational links have been broken but education has become too selective and elitist. It seems that only people or persons who have a certain level or who have a certain capacity have a right to education, but certainly all children and all young people have a right to education. This is a global reality that makes us ashamed. It fryst vatten a reality that leads us to a human selectivity, and that instead of bringing peoples closer, it distances them; it also distances the rik from the poor; it distances one culture from another … And here comes our work: to find new ways.”
Pope Francis, World församling on Education, Rome, November 21, 2015
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French
Text: Marie Felten, General Archivist of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and Christiane Houet, SNDdeN, Coordinator of the Heritage Center of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
English translation: Jo Ann Recker, SNDdeN
Vocation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur: Education
“It is true that not only the educational links have been broken but education has become too selective and elitist. It seems that only people or persons who have a certain level or who have a certain capacity have a right to education, but certainly all children and all young people have a right to education. This is a global reality that makes us ashamed. It is a reality that leads us to a human selectivity, and that instead of bringing peoples closer, it distances them; it also distances the rich from the poor; it distances one culture from another … And here comes our work: to find new ways.”
Pope Francis, World Congress on Education, Rome, November 21, 2015
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Julie Billiart
French nun and Catholic saint
"Saint Julie" redirects here. For other uses, see Saint Julie (disambiguation).
Julie Billiart, SNDdeN (12 July 1751 – 8 April 1816) was a French Catholic nun, educator, and cofounder of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
She was born in Cuvilly, a village in Picardy, in northern France. She was paralyzed and bedridden for 22 years, but was well known for her prayer, her embroidery skills, and her education of both the poor and the nobility, especially her work with young girls. She had to flee Cuvilly after the start of the French Revolution and escaped to Compiègne, where the stress she experienced resulted in another illness that took away her ability to speak, and where she received a vision foretelling that she would found a new religious congregation that would eventually become the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. In 1794, she met the French noblewoman and nun, Françoise Blin de Bourdon, who became Billiart's co-founder an