FD of Bd Anne-Marie Javouhey (d 1851), founder Srs of St. Joseph of Cluny, established missions in French colonies, Guadalupe, Martinique, Senegal. She faced unrelenting harassment from bishops who tried to wrest control of her congregation.
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She established a colony for emancipated slaves in Guiana, so prosperous it aroused jealousy from white farmers. They pressed the local bishop to excommunicate her. Her sisters discovered this only when the priest at Mass passed by her open mouth refusing to give her communion.
When her nemesis later died, she urged her sisters to pray for him, as one of their "benefactors." "God made use of him to try us when as a rule we were hearing nothing around us but praise." She died July 15, 1851.
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