Religious · Remembered on April 8
St. Julie Billiart
St. Julie Billiart is remembered on April 8 in Bless’s calendar of saints.
| Remembered on | April 8 |
|---|---|
| Title | Religious |
| Died | 1816 |
| Next on Bless’s Today screen | None left in the published calendar (through December 31, 2028) |
Life
A Picard farm girl, catechist from childhood, paralyzed for twenty-two years and hunted through the Revolution for hiding priests. Cured at fifty-three, when she was asked to take a step for the Sacred Heart and walked, she founded the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur for the education of poor girls, with the conviction that carried her through everything: how good the good God is.
In the calendar
The upcoming dates, through December 31, 2028, when Bless’s Today screen shows St. Julie Billiart. Where the US calendar keeps another celebration that day, it is named instead and no rank is given.
Readings
No dates are left in Bless’s published calendar, which runs through December 31, 2028. St. Julie Billiart keeps April 8 in Bless’s calendar of saints: see the saints of April.
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