Marie-madeleine Postel
See also: Postel
Holy Marie-madeleine Postel , born Julie Francoise-Catherine with Barfleur the November 28th 1756 and died with Saint-Saver-the-Viscount the July 16th 1846, is a holy catholic, founder of the Congregation of the sisters of the Christian Schools of the Mercy (1807).
Girl of a rope-maker of Barfleur, it is sent at the bénédictines Valognes, then returns in 1776 in her birthplace to open a school for poor children.
During the Revolution, it helps the priests tracked to flee in England and organizes clandestine masses. The calm income, it seeks to create a community in direction of poor youth and founds, in 1807, the Congregation of the sisters of the Christian Schools of the Mercy. The congregation settles successively with Octeville-l' Avenel, Valognes and Tamerville, before finding in 1832 in the old woman Benedictine abbey of Saint-Saver-the-Viscount, dating from, its final residence, that the sisters rebuilt. Her death, the happy sister Placide Viel succeeds to him.
She also opened a boarding school of young girls with Cherbourg.
Béatifiée in 1908, canonized the May 24th 1925, one celebrates it the July 16th.
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