Salesian Saints
The patron saint of the Salesian spiritual tradition and namesake of Salesian spirituality.
Who is St. Francis de Sales?
The definition of the "little virtues" in Salesian Spirituality.
What are everyday virtues such as gentleness, patience, and kindness, practiced consistently in ordinary life through daily, small actions?
The year of the founding of Georgetown Visitation.
What is 1799?
St. Jane de Chantal's primary state in life before she founded the Visitation Order.
What is a wife and a mother to 6 children?
The English translation of the Latin "Cor Jesu."
What is the Heart of Jesus?
Who is St. Jane de Chantal?
What is gentleness?
Visitation's motto, expressed in Latin.
What is Fides et Scientia, or faith and knowledge?
The theological virtue that stands at the HEART of Salesian spirituality, giving meaning to the practice of the little virtues?
What is Charity: supernatural love of God and neighbor?
St. Francis de Sales believed all people could grow in virtues and that all people are called to holiness and union with God, regardless of their state in life; we call this the ____________________________?
What is the Universal Call to Holiness?
The French region where St. Francis de Sales was born, AND the city where he later served as bishop.
What is Savoy and what is the Bishop of Geneva?
List five little virtues.
What are:
- gentleness/gentle strength, humility, patience, contentment, thoughtful concern for others, gratitude, joyful optimism, courage, kindness, hospitality, liberty of spirit, and simplicity?
The names of the three women who founded Georgetown Visitation.
Who are Maria Sharpe, Maria McDermott, and Alice Lalor?
The city where the Visitation Order was founded.
What is Annecy, France?
The October Little Virtue of the Month.
What is Thoughtful Concern for Others?
The FULL NAME of the religious order established by St. Jane de Chantal and St. Francis de Sales in 1610.
What is the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary?
The reason a small act of kindness might be more spiritually significant than a dramatic but isolated act of kindness.
What is: because holiness is formed through habitual charity and fidelity in ordinary life, not merely through extraordinary, public deeds?
The devastating event in 1993 that became a major turning point in our school's history.
What is the 1993 fire in Founders Hall?
The personal, spiritual struggle St. Francis de Sales overcame during his student years in Paris.
What is a profound spiritual crisis involving fear of predestination and despair over his salvation, which he overcame through surrender to God's love and mercy?
The French town where St. Margaret Mary Alacoque received her famous revelations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
What is Paray-le-Monial, France?
St. Francis de Sales was named a Doctor of the Church in 1877. He is known by this title because of his teachings on holiness and the spiritual life.
What is the Doctor of Divine Love?
Finish the SFDS quote: "Nothing is so strong as _________, nothing so ______ as real strength."
Gentleness, gentle
The reason behind our school colors of gold and white.
What is the Vatican flag?
The little virtue that Visi associates with the humor of Marshmallow Roast?
What is eutrapelia--the virtue of appropriate recreation, fun, and good-natured humor!?
Two devotional practices associated with Visitation saint, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque.
What are the Holy Hour and First Friday Adoration?