John Francis Regis [SEP] religious order
John Francis Regis
Jean-François Régis, known as Saint John Francis Regis and St. Regis, (31 January 1597 – 31 December 1640), was a French priest of the Society of Jesus, recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Life.
Jean-François Régis was born 31 January 1597, in Fontcouverte, Aude, in the Languedoc region of southern France. His father, Jean Régis, had recently been ennobled as a result of service rendered during the Wars of the League. His
other. She entered the novitiate after she had met Father Jean-Pierre Etienne Terme in late March 1825 and confided in him her desire to become a religious. Couderc assumed a religious name when she became a novice.
She grew concerned with the welfare of female pilgrims visiting the shrine of Saint John Francis Regis and so decided to establish a religious congregation in order to deal with this issue. Couderc co-founded the Sisters of the Cenacle with Father Terme in 1826 and became its superior in 1828 - and when the