Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis

By MWetsel

  • Her birth

    Marie Teresa Chappuis was born in Soyhieres amid the Jura mountains in Switzerland.

  • School

    She attended the Visitation school at Fribourg at the age of twelve.

  • Becoming a sister

    She was of poor health, she entered the Visitation community of Fribourg and professed her vows as Sister Mary Francis de Sales.

  • Caninized?

    Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis died on October 7, 1875, in the Visitation Monastery at Troyes. Her religious community of men who would live the Spiritual Directory of Saint Francis de Sales and spread his vision of the Gospel. Cause for canonization still continues with that of her co-founder, Father Louis Brisson. As Salesians, we celebrate her contribution to the Church on October 12th, Oblate Founders Day.