La R.M. Javouhey: fondatrice de la Congrégation de Saint-Joseph de Cluny; histoire de sa vie des oeuvres, et missions de la congrégation.

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BIOGRAPHY OF A VENERATED MISSIONARY AND ABOLITIONIST Born in 1779 at Chamblanc, near Seurre, Anne-Marie Javouhey founded the Burgundy based order of Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny in 1798. She is said to have had visions at an early age of Teresa of Avila giving into her care children of different races, which became the foundation of her lifelong commitment to missionary work, education and reform in the French speaking colonies of the Atlantic world. Her schools, missions and hospitals included such locations as the Île Bourbon in the Indian Ocean, Gorée off the coast of Senegal, French Guiana and Guadeloupe. She was a pioneer of mental healthcare in Africa, and believed in integrated education. Her expeditions were both intrepid and successful, as her work in French Guiana can attest: “The French Government, after unsuccessful attempts at colonizing the rich interior of this country, appealed to the foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph, who were already established there. Having submitted her plans for approval and received full authority, Mother Javouhey set out for Guiana in 1828, with 36 sisters and 50 emigrants, and soon had organized a self-supporting colony” (Catholic Encyclopædia). This community developed into the town of Mana in the northwest of the country. The settlement grew around an orphanage, but soon became a refuge for newly emancipated and runaway slaves, as well as supporting a leprosarium. Javouhey herself was a firm believer in the total abolition of

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