Saint Mary Magdelene Postel
Born in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (Normandy, France), Saint Mary Magdalene Postel, provided all kinds of services to the sick and, in general, to all the faithful, when all the priests had been expelled.
At the age of nine she received her First Communion; A few years later his parents died.
She studied at the Benedictine abbey of Valognes, which she left to dedicate herself to the Christian education and formation of women without resources. At the age of eighteen she founded her first school. When the Revolution broke out and the religious orders were dissolved, he was entrusted with the mission of guarding and administering the Eucharistic Bread and keeping the sacred vessels and ornaments.
For more than ten years he gave refuge to persecuted priests and continued his catechetical work clandestinely; therefore, due to her charity and the special gifts that resided in her, she was named "the Virgin priest."
Once peace had returned, in the most complete poverty, she founded the Congregation of the Daughters of Mercy, for the training of poor young women.
When she was in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, it is said that "not even lightning could distract her." In 1798 she entered as a Franciscan tertiary. In 1807 she founded the Institute of the Sisters of the Christian Schools of Mercy in Cherbourg, with a severe rule and very austere life.
In this place he died on July 16, 1846. During his fruitful life he founded more than thirty-seven convents and churches.
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