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Euphrasie (by Mary Phillippa Reed)

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Euphrasie
 

Euphrasie
(by Mary Phillippa Reed)

$20.00

ISBN: -

  • 2007 edition. RARE. 199 pages
  • Publisher The author
  • Softcover. Format B. Illustrated
  • Condition. Very good

 

This is the  biography of a woman with a cherished mission in life. It is a simplified version of more scholarly biographies. It certainly presents a readable account of Euphrasie Barbier      

Euphrasie Barbier was a young French woman whose heart was fired for mission when she heard a visiting missionary bishop preach in her Parish Church. Following her dream, Euphrasie left France and spent ten years in the slums of London, England with the Sisters of Calvary, and this is where she learnt to read and write English and interestingly over the years all her foreign missions were established in British colonies.

But Euphrasie yearned to be a foreign missionary and she was soon joined by women eager to go beyond country and culture for the sake of Jesus and his liberating Good News. Her desire finally became a reality when, in 1861, she founded the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions in Lyon, France.

By 1864, Euphrasie was preparing her first four young, new professed missionaries to board a ship from London for Australia to eventually settle in Napier, New Zealand at the request of the parish priest. The Sisters’ were required to run a girls’ school.

Around this time Euphrasie realised she needed to have her Congregation recognised by Rome, to provide some independence from other institutions. It was arranged for her to have an audience with the Pope, who spoke to Euphrasie about her new Congregation and its aims. By the end of 1867 Euphrasie had received official Church approval of the Constitutions, although it was not until 1877 that the Congregation was officially approved by Rome.. 

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