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   Paul's conversion   
      
   Herein is Saint Paul's conversion memorable:   
    that it was a triumph over the enemy. When Almighty God would convert   
   the world, opening the door of faith to the Gentiles, who was the   
   chosen preacher of this mystery? Not one of Christ's first followers.   
   To show his power, he put forth his hand into the very midst of the   
   persecutors of his Son, and seized upon the most strenuous among them.   
   The prayer of a dying man, Stephen, is the token and occasion of that   
   triumph which he had reserved for himself. His strength is made   
   perfect in weakness.   
   --John Henry Newman   
      
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   24 August – Saint Jeanne-Antide Thouret   
      
   23 May (Thouret sisters) on some calendars   
      
    (1765-1826)   
    Was a French Roman Catholic professed Religious and the Founder of   
   the Thouret Sisters – renamed the Sisters of Divine Charity, Apostle   
   of Charity and the Poor and helpless.  Thouret’s life was one of   
   service to children and the ill across France in schools and hospitals   
   – some of which her order established. This active apostolate did not   
   cease when the French Revolution forced her into exile. She continued   
   her work in both Switzerland and the Kingdom of Prussia. She was born   
   on 27 November 1765 at Sancy-le-Long, diocese of Besançon, France and   
   died on 24 August 1826 at Naples, Italy of natural causes. Patronage –   
   The Sisters of Divine Charity.   
      
   Jeanne-Antide Thouret was born in Sancey-le-Long (Doubs). She was the   
   fifth child in a rural family of the very Christian county of Franche.   
   At the age of 22 she entered the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent   
   de Paul to serve those who are poor, first in Langres and then in   
   Paris.   
   In May 1794 Jeanne-Antide returned to Sancey, as during the French   
   Revolution all the Daughters of Charity, just as a good number of   
   religious, were disbanded and had to return to their family homes.   
      
   On 15 August 1795 she went to Switzerland with the « Solitaires » of   
   Father Antoine-Sylvestre Receveur. Because of the rejection of the   
   Christian faith this community was obliged to roam across Europe for   
   12 years. She travelled across Switzerland and part of Germany. She   
   left the community and arrived in Landeron, near Neuchâtel,   
   Switzerland after a lonely journey of more than 600 kilometers. There   
   she received an appeal from two French priests who asked her to return   
   to Besançon, France to care for sick and uneducated children.   
      
   On 11 April 1799 with two other young women, in Besançon, she   
   established a free school for girls and a soup kitchen for the poor.   
   The people called them the “sisters of the soup kitchen and little   
   schools.”   
      
   From May to September 1802, Jeanne-Antide revised a Rule of Life for   
   her community. Accompanied by several sisters attracted by her ideal   
   of life, she opened new schools and places to care for the sick, where   
   she sent her sisters to teach and care for the poor. On 23 September   
   1802 she was asked to take over serving the prisoners in Bellevaux.   
   There she used her talents as educator, gave them food and organised   
   their work, permitting them to receive a salary. In Paris in 1807 the   
   Sisters received the official name of “Sisters of Charity of   
   Besançon.”   
      
   On 8 May 1810 she was called to Savoy, Thonon, where she went with   
   some Sisters. A little later she was called to Naples where she went   
   with eight of her Sisters. There she was asked to take on the care of   
   the Hospital for Incurables. She also opened a school and a pharmacy   
   in the midst of the convent they had been given. She and her Sisters   
   never hesitated to go out to visit and care for the poor and sick.   
      
   Their Constitutions were approved by Pope Pius VII on 23 July 1819. He   
   gave them the name, “Sisters of Charity under the protection of St.   
   Vincent de Paul.” Jeanne-Antide died at “Regina Coeli” monastery in   
   Naples on the evening of 24 August 1826 from a cerebral haemorrhage.   
      
   The Community today counts 4000 Sisters spread over the five   
   continents, working in a large variety of services for those who are   
   poor. Community life, the Eucharist and the Paschal Mystery are today,   
   as they were for Jeanne-Antide, the key elements of their life.   
   St Jeanne-Antide was Canonised on 14 January 1934 by Pope Pius XI.   
      
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   Saint Quote:   
   I am a Christian.  It seemed a while ago as if God rejected me as a   
   stone unfit to enter His building, but He has the goodness to take me   
   now to be placed in it; I am ready to suffer all things for His name,   
   that I may have a part in His kingdom with His Saints.   
   --St Serenus   
      
   Bible Quote   
   This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved   
   you.  Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life   
   for his friends.  You are my friends, if you do the things that I   
   command you.  (John 15:12-14)   
      
      
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   Cardinal Newman's Meditation   
      
   God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed   
   some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my   
   mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in   
   the next.   
      
   I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has   
   not created me for naught. I shall do good. I shall do His work. I   
   shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place while   
   not intending it--if I do but keep His Commandments.   
      
   Therefore, I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be   
   thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in   
   perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow   
   may serve Him.   
      
   He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about. He may take away   
   my friends. He may throw me among strangers. He may make me feel   
   desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me--still He knows   
   what He is about.   
   – John Cardinal Newman   
      
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