The Life of St. Julie Billiart - Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur

The Life of St. Julie Billiart
A Saint for Our Time
1751-1816
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Foundress
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
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“Ah! How Good is the g
good
God!”
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Julie
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Father Dangicourt invites Julie,
at the age of nine,
to make her First Holy Communion.
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Born to be a teacher
For hours, Julie Billiart’s friends sit and listen
and laugh as she teaches them their lessons.
Without a doubt, she was born to be a teacher.
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H l i her
Helping
h family
f il
Julie
li goes to the
h city
i to try to sellll
her father’s merchandise for a better price.
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A teacher in the fields
The other field workers enjoy
Julie’s lessons about the Good God.
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Wounded heart,
heart broken body
The peace of the little shop is shattered when a rock is
hurled through the window and a gun shot rings out,
frightening Julie and her father.
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A quiet life
From her bed, Julie teaches
the little children from around her village
about the goodness of God.
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Revolution!
A farmhand carefully conceals Julie and Felicité
under a load of straw and leads them to safety.
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A vision of the future
Julie envisions her future
and the sisters who will help her.
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Friends help shape the future
Viscountess Françoise Blin de Bourdon
visits Julie.
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T h for
Teachers
f the
h poor
A novice
i or young sister
i
rings
i
her
h bell
b ll
to announce that the Sisters of Notre Dame
have opened a free school for little girls.
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Lik a Sunflower
Like
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“The mind and heart should always
turn toward and follow God alone.”
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A step off ffaith
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“Mother, if you have any faith, take a
step in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.”
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A community is established
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The first sisters take vows February 2,
2 1804.
1804
In Belgium, they begin to wear a simple dark habit.
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From
F
France
to Belgium
B l i
Mè Julie
Mère
J li arrives
i
in
i Belgium
B l i
and
d
is greeted by young women eager to join
the Sisters of Notre Dame
Dame.
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Hearts
wide
id as the
h world
ld
Mère Julie sees her sisters taking the message
of God’s goodness throughout the world.
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Challenges in Amiens
Treacherous winter weather forces
Mère Julie to abandon her carriage.
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Love
for
f the
h Children
Child
Mère Julie loves to visit the students at her schools
and to teach them about the Good God.
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Th walking
The
lki love
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off God
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Mè Julie
Mère
J li accompanies
i a group off sisters
it
to a new town and a new school.
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B li f in
Belief
i God’s
G d’ goodness
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Mère Julie asks God to cure
a young girl’s eye infection.
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To heaven on foot
Mère Julie returns to Namur, in the company
of two of Napoleon’s soldiers, finishing
another journey through warwar-torn Belgium.
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A Saint for our time
Ah! How good is the good God!
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