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Jeanne Chezard de Matel
French mystic
Jeanne Chézard de Matel, OVISS (6 November – ) was a French Catholic mystic who founded the Order of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament, whose rule and constitution were approved in with the principal objective of youth education.
Life
Jeanne was born on November 6, , in Roanne, in the Diocese of Lyons, in France.
Jeanne chezard de matel biography for kids
She was the daughter of Jean Chézard, a French army officer and nobleman, and his wife, Jeanne Chaurier, whose first four children were stillborn or had died as infants. Jean was baptized the same day in St. Stephen's Church.
Two small children who came to the door begging were her godparents.[1] As she grew in her spirituality, she was drawn especially to Mary, the Mother of the Incarnate Word, to St. Joseph and to Michael the Archangel.[2]
In , at the age of 12, Jeanne was permitted to make her first Communion.
In her teens she lived an active social life, loving parties, dancing, fun and laughte