Jeanne de chantal biography template

"In Madame de Chantal I have found the perfect woman, whom Solomon had difficulty finding in Jerusalem". - St. Francis de Sales, her spiritual director.

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Saint Jane Frances de Chantal () Wife, widow, single mother, religious foundress.

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal () Wife, widow, single mother, religious foundress.

Jane de Chantal was Benigno Frémiot, president of the parliament of Borgoa.

Biography.

With a Preface by the Rev. H. J. COLERIDGE.

Jane Frances de Chantal was born in Dijon in She was the second child of Benigne Fremyot, president of the local parliament.

Jane Frances de Chantal was born in Dijon, France, on January 28, 1572, and died at the Visitation Convent Moulins on December 13, 1641.

Jane (Jeanne) was born into nobility, her father being the president of the parliament of Burgundy.

At age 20 she was married to the Baron de Chantal. Jane had four children, and loved and served her young family deeply until the death of her husband in a hunting accident at age 28.

For seven years she was forced to live in the house of her father in law, a trial which she was forced to bare patiently due to his ill-disposition towards her, and it was during this time that she took a vow of perpetual chastity.

In all of her prayers, Jane asked God to send her a guide.

In a vision, He showed her the spiritual director that He held in rese