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子供たちは行列として遊びます 参加者は礼拝のために聖ローズ・デュシェン宮に入るのを待ちます。 / クレジット： ジョナ・マッケオウン
CNA Staff, Nov 18, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).
11月18日、カトリック教会は、1800年代に宣教師としてアメリカに来たフランスの宗教的な姉妹であるセントローズ・フィリピン・デュシェン(St. Rose Philippine Duchesne)の祝祭日を祝います。
Rose was born on Aug. 29, 1769, in Grenoble, France. On the day of her baptism, she received the names Philip, honoring the apostle, and Rose, honoring St. Rose of Lima. She was educated at the Convent of the Visitation of Ste. Marie d’en Haut and became drawn to contemplative life. At the age of 18, she became a novice at the convent.
During the revolution in France, Rose’s community was dispersed and she ended up returning to her family home. After the Concordat of 1801, she tried to rebuild her community’s monastery but was unable to do so.
In 1804, Rose heard of a new congregation — the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She became a novice in the society that same year.
観想生活への大きな願望にもかかわらず、ローズは宣教活動の呼びかけも感じていた。
で A 「 手紙 」 she wrote to Mother Madeleine Sophie Barat, the foundress of the society, Rose described an experience she had during adoration: “I spent the entire night in the New World … carrying the Blessed Sacrament to all parts of the land … I had all my sacrifices to offer: a mother, sisters, family, my mountain! When you say to me ‘now I send you,’ I will respond quickly, ‘I go.’”
In 1818, Rose was finally sent to do missionary work. Bishop Louis William Valentine DuBourg, the St. Louis area’s first bishop, was looking for a congregation of educators to help him evangelize the children of the diocese. At St. Charles, near St. Louis, Rose founded the first house of the society outside of France.
同年、ローズと他の4人の姉妹がアメリカ先住民の子供のための最初の無料学校を開校した。 1828年までにローズは6つの学校を設立した。
『THE SAINT ONCE』 「 」 「 」: “You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue, which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her.”
Rose always carried a desire to serve Native Americans. In 1841, at the age of 71, she established a school for Potawatomi girls in Sugar Creek, Kansas. She spent a year with the Potawatomi, spending much of her time in prayer because she was unable to help with much of the physical work. They gave her the name “Quah-kah-ka-num-ad,” which means “woman who is always praying.”
1842年、ローズはセントチャールズに戻り、1852年11月18日に83歳で死去した。 彼女は1988年7月3日に教皇ヨハネ・パウロ2世によって聖人であると宣言され、ミズーリ州セントチャールズの聖ローズ・デュシェン神殿に埋葬されている。
This story was first published on Nov. 18, 2024, and has been updated.
