Catherine Jarrige
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Blessed Catherine Jarrige (4 October 1754 – 4 July 1836), known as Catinon Menette, a beatified third-order
Dominican of the Catholic Church.
. Her parents and their seven children all lived together in a single household. Still quite young, like all of the youth of her age and background, she worked in the fields with her family and at the age of 9 she was sent to work as a servant of a neighbor. There it was said that she lived a happy and even mischievous life.
It was also at this age, as was the norm, that she made her first Holy Communion, a cherished memory for the rest of her life.
In the imitation of her patron, St. Catherine of Siena, she became a third-order Dominican.
She greatly enjoyed to dance Bourrée
, but she renounced it and would say while she was going around everywhere to help the poor:
"I would like that people confess as many times as I danced the Bourrée"
She spent all her life providing for the spiritual and material needs of the needy, requisitioning alms for them, and inspiring the most reticent to awaken their conscience. She was totally devoted to the most humble and poorest people, looked after them by providing them with food and clothing and generally helping and comforting them throughout her life.
during the French Revolution
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She hid them, so that they can celebrate Mass, and she helped assist them in their work, risking her life multiple times.
Once the revolutionary upheaval had passed, she continued her charitable work, until her death, in 1836. A large crowd attended her funeral, and her popularity remained very sharp still today in the region of Mauriac.
Third order
The term Third Order designates persons who live according to the Third Rule of a Roman Catholic religious order, an Anglican religious order, or a Lutheran religious order. Their members, known as Tertiaries, are generally lay members of religious orders, i.e...
Dominican of the Catholic Church.
Youth
Catherine was born on October 4, 1754 into a poor family of peasants in Doumis, CantalCantal
Cantal is a department in south-central France. It is named after the Cantal mountain range, a group of extinct, eroded volcanic peaks, which covers much of the department. Residents are known as Cantaliens or Cantalous....
. Her parents and their seven children all lived together in a single household. Still quite young, like all of the youth of her age and background, she worked in the fields with her family and at the age of 9 she was sent to work as a servant of a neighbor. There it was said that she lived a happy and even mischievous life.
It was also at this age, as was the norm, that she made her first Holy Communion, a cherished memory for the rest of her life.
In the imitation of her patron, St. Catherine of Siena, she became a third-order Dominican.
She greatly enjoyed to dance Bourrée
Bourrée
The bourrée is a dance of French origin common in Auvergne and Biscay in Spain in the 17th century. It is danced in quick double time, somewhat resembling the gavotte. The main difference between the two is the anacrusis, or upbeat; a bourrée starts on the last beat of a bar, creating a...
, but she renounced it and would say while she was going around everywhere to help the poor:
"I would like that people confess as many times as I danced the Bourrée"
She spent all her life providing for the spiritual and material needs of the needy, requisitioning alms for them, and inspiring the most reticent to awaken their conscience. She was totally devoted to the most humble and poorest people, looked after them by providing them with food and clothing and generally helping and comforting them throughout her life.
During the French Revolution
Catherine is the first to help the refractory priests, those priests who refused to swear an oath to the Civil Constitution of the ClergyCivil Constitution of the Clergy
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that subordinated the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government....
during the French Revolution
French Revolution
The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
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She hid them, so that they can celebrate Mass, and she helped assist them in their work, risking her life multiple times.
Once the revolutionary upheaval had passed, she continued her charitable work, until her death, in 1836. A large crowd attended her funeral, and her popularity remained very sharp still today in the region of Mauriac.
Beatification
- Père Cormier, of the diocese of Saint-Flour founded her cause for beatification. Pope Pius XII declared her VenerableVenerableThe Venerable is used as a style or epithet in several Christian churches. It is also the common English-language translation of a number of Buddhist titles.-Roman Catholic:...
in 1953. - Catherine Jarrige was beatified on November 24, 1996 in RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
by Pope John Paul II. Her memorial is on July 4.
Sources
- Osservatore Romano : 1996 n.45 p. 7 / n.48 p. 2-3 / n.49 p. 9-10
- Documentation Catholique : 1997 n.1 p. 1-2