St. Marie Eugenie of Jesus

Foundress of the Religious of the Assumption

10th march, 2013

WITH YOU, WE CAN

Who is she?She is Anne Eugenie Milleret de Brou, later to become St. S Eugenie of Jesus, the future foundress of the Religious of the Assumption

The family of St. Mª Eugenie of Jesus

Anne Eugenie’s father, Jacques Milleret, had met Eleonore-Eugenie de Brou in Luxembourg.

Five children, three boys and two girls, were born to them.

Anne Marie Eugenie was born in 1817 in Metz, into a wealthy family and grew up in a chateau in the suburb of Priesch, north of Paris

The family of St. Mª Eugenie of Jesus

She grew up in a family that had no interest in religion or Jesus Christ, but

that was privileged, wealthy and passionate about politics and social

justice

The family of St. Mª Eugenie of Jesus

Preisch, Metz, France

Anne Eugenie was baptized on October 5, 1817 in her family’s own chapel at Preisch.

For Anne Eugenie, Preisch meant the countryside, an atmosphere of

freedom, games with Louis, walks, the joys of childhood, the vast library, visits to the poor with her mother,

parties.

¡Navidad de 1829!

At the age of 12, Anne-Eugénie made her First Holy Communion at the Church of

Saint Segolene

First Communion of St. Mª Eugenie of Jesus

First Communion of St. Mª Eugenie of Jesus

“The moment I received Jesus Christ, it was as if everything I had seen on earth was only a passing shadow.”

First Communion of St. Mª Eugenie of Jesus

Through receiving this sacrament, she experienced the presence of God, a mystical

moment, one about which she would talk throughout the rest of her life

In 1830, her father lost his fortune and had to put

Preisch up for sale. In the house in Metz, too, sheriff’s seals were everywhere. An even more bitter drama was the separation of her

parents.

For Sale

Anne Eugenie went to live in Paris with her mother while Louis remained with M.

Milleret.

For Sale

In 1832, a cholera epidemic ravaged the capital. Mme.

Milleret became ill; within a few hours

she was dead.

Anne Eugenie was fifteen, alone and in great distress.

Her father then sent Marie Eugenie to live with very Catholic cousins in Paris.

Then God intervened. In Lent 1836, Anne Eugenie heard Father Lacordaire in Notre Dame:

He spoke to her heart. She realised that she had to give her life to

God.

As she said later, "My vocation dates from

Notre Dame."

It was only the next year that chance - or the hand of God -

brought her into contact with Fr. Combalot.

Combalot told her that he was looking for someone to help him

found a religious order devoted to Mary and to the education of the

poor, and thought that Anne-Eugénie would be such a

foundress. At the age of 22, with four

young companions, she founded the Religious of the

Assumption

Fr. d’Alzon founded the Augustinians of the Assumption 6 years after the foundation of the Religious of the

Assumption

Fr. d‘Alzon became her spiritual

director and intimate friend

for 40 years .

And the rest, as they say, is history.

The foundation of the Assumption

First apartment at Rue Ferou

April 30, 1839 :

Foundation Day

Religious of the

Assumption

Appartment on Rue Ferou

On April 30, 1839, Anne Eugenie Milleret and Anastasia Bevier met in a small

apartment on Rue Ferou, a tiny lane near Saint Sulpice. Year after year, Marie Eugenie would celebrate that

anniversary foundation of the Religious of the Assumption on by recounting once more the amazing deeds of God.

“In the Assumption,

everything is from Jesus Christ, everything

belongs to Jesus Christ,

everything must be for Jesus

Christ.”

Site of the first boarding school at Impasse des

Vignes which opened in the Spring of 1842 with 14

students.

On August 10, 1857, the Community left the heart of the city and went to Auteuil; To the

Chateau was added the boarding school. The new monastery

became the heart of the Congregation and would be the

House of Mother Marie Eugenie for 40 years.

The Auteuil property, 1857, Paris - Mother

House (Original)

AuteuilMother House of the

Religious of the Assumption (Present)

March 10, 1898

Death of Marie

Eugenie

Beatification of Marie Eugenie

February 9, 1975 St. Peter’s

Basilica, Rome

Canonization of Marie Eugenie

Sunday June 3, 2007Celebration of the CANONIZATION

at St. Peter’s Square

“The earth is a place of God's

glory”M.M.EUGENIE

What inspired her? ~ Reign of God

• A lifestyle and a mission lived in the following of Jesus and under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.• A way of life that creates an interior order of priorities and values that structures persons and society in love, justice and peace.

“It pains me to hear this earth called a land of exile. I consider it a place of

glory for God.”

What inspired her… ~ the basis of her

pedagogy … To challenge a worldly education whose

instruction was superficial;

“…hearts that do not beat for anything broad-minded…”

An authentic Christianity and not a external piety;

To give girls a formation of the whole person in the light of Christ

To transform those who are too narrow-minded in their religiosity ~

The Educational Project Educate to help persons transform their way of thinking and acting, to transform their Social environment

Born from a double vision~– The REIGN of God – beginning and end of everything

– Christian Society – where God is recognized, loved and served

Formation of the intelligence enlightened by faith ~ Christianize the Intelligence

Social Transformation Today

Education Education

for for Justice, Justice,

Respect for Respect for Creation, Creation,

Peace Peace

and and SolidaritySolidarity

The Assumption in the Word

8-marzo-2013

Assumption in Gijón

Now (2013)1907

HAPPY DAY OF ST. Mª EUGENIEHAPPY DAY OF ST. Mª EUGENIE

The earth is a place of God's glory

St. Marie Eugenie of Jesus