Blessed Rosalie Rendu
Also known as: Jeanne Marie Rendu
Feast Day
7-Feb
Born
9 September 1786 at Confort, Gex, France as Jeanne Marie Rendu
Died
7 February 1856 at Paris, France of natural causes
Beatified
9 November 2003 by Pope John Paul II
Venerated
24 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtues)
Biography
Blessed Rosalie Rendu, also known as Jeanne Marie Rendu, was born on 9 September 1786 in Confort, Gex, France. She was the eldest of four daughters in a middle-class mountain family. Her early years were marked by the tumultuous events of the French Revolution, during which priests loyal to Rome were persecuted and forced underground. Jeanne's family courageously hid priests who remained to minister to French Catholics, disguising them as hired farm hands. It was during this time that she made her First Communion in the basement, at a Mass celebrated by one of these covert priests.
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