Marie de Valence
Marie de Valence of her true name Marie Aimar known as Teyssonnier was born in 1576 with Are and died on April 1st 1648.
Its family having left Valence because of her adhesion to the reformed Religion, Marie is born with Are, then is baptized according to the sacraments of this religion. After the death of her father, his mother remarie with Antoine Guillon who brings back his new family to the Catholicisme and installs it in Valence.
Married to 16 years with Mathieu Pouchelon, a Protestant notary of the Balsam-Cornillane, Marie lives little with him. He dies in 1602.
Refugee very early in the prayer and the Mysticism, Marie is noticed by the father Cotton, a Jésuite which will encourage it to learn how to read and to persevere in her faith. Become widowed, it devotes entièrement.
to it
The Cotton father makes his praise at the court of the king, so that its reputation becomes such as the many ones and famous characters come to meet it in Valence: Louis XIII, the queen Anne of Austria, Richelieu, Marie de Médicis, Holy François Dirty, Holy Vincent of Paul, etc
Known in all the kingdom under the name of Marie de Valence, it causes enthusiasm, respect and admiration until its death.
References
- Andre Blanc, Valence through the men , Editions SOREPI, Valence, 1975.
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