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In the first chapter we discussed the groundbreaking role that the Samaritan woman played in the ministry of Jesus; immediately after comprehending the meaning of Jesus’ message, she departed to direct others to their salvation. As a result, “many Samaritans from the town believed in him of the strength of the woman’s testimony” (Jn 4:39). Lest the skeptic think that such exegesis is the product of overzealous projections into Scripture on my part, we should listen attentively to Teresa of Avila’s ruminations on the Samaritan woman’s spiritual direction.
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See Alison Weber, Teresa of Avila and the Rhetoric of Femininity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Cf. Ignatius Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises, tr. Thomas Corbishley, 2nd ed. (repr.: Wheathampstead: Anthony Clarke, 1963).
For a thorough analysis of Teresa’s influence on Francis’s spirituality and direction, see M. M. Rivet, The Influence of the Spanish Mystics on the Works of Saint Francis de Sales (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1941), especially chapter 6. See also letters 216; 223; 280, in Francis, Jane, pp. 121; 125; and 126; respectively; and Francis de Sales, Introduction to a Devout Life. M. J. (Ratisborn: Frederick Pustat and Co., n.d.), 10.
See Elizabeth Stopp, Madame de Chantal (Westminster, MD: Newman Press, 1963), 106–107; and Francis, Jane, 69; 84.
Elizabeth Rapley, The Dévotes (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990), 5.
Charles E. Williams, The French Oratorians and Absolutism, 1611–1641 (New York: Peter Lang, 1989), 53–74.
See María de San José, Escritos espirituales, ed. Simeón de la Sagrada Familia, 2nd ed. (Rome: Postulación General, 1979); and Arenal and Schlau, Untold Sisters, 43.
These works are collected under the title Formacion de novicias y ejercicios de piedad in Ana de San Bartolome, Obras completas de la beata, ed. Julian Urk-iza, 2 vols. (Rome: Edizioni Teresianum, 1981, 1985).
Jeanne Françoise Fréymot de Chantal, Sa Vie et ses oeuvres (Paris: Plon, 1874–1879), 8, 5: 605–606.
Letter to unnamed friend, quoted in M. Denis Mahoney, Marie of the Incarnation (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1964), 259.
Louise Sullivan concludes likewise: “With the guidance and support of Vincent, it had devolved on Louise de Marillac to create and sustain this spiritual bond among the young women. … The spiritual as well as the professional formation of the sisters was, therefore, largely the task of Louise de Marillac.” Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac: Rules, Conferences and Writings, ed. Francis Ryan and John E. Rybolt, intro. Louise Sullivan (New York: Paulist Press, 1995), intro., 50.
Cf. Edward R. Udovic, “‘Caritas Christi Urget Nos’: The Urgent Challenges of Charity in Seventeenth Century France,” Vincentian Heritage, 12:2 (1991), 85–104.
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Ranft, P. (2000). Spiritual Directors within the New Orders. In: A Woman’s Way. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-38533-1_8
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