Virgin · Remembered on July 16

St. Marie-Madeleine Postel

St. Marie-Madeleine Postel is remembered on July 16 in Bless’s calendar of saints.

Remembered on	July 16
Title	Virgin
Died	1846
Next on Bless’s Today screen	Friday, July 16, 2027

Life

A Norman schoolmistress who hid priests and the Blessed Sacrament through the Revolution — carrying it to the dying at risk of her head — then at fifty-one founded the Sisters of the Christian Schools of Mercy, rebuilding a ruined abbey stone by stone in her eighties.

In the calendar

The upcoming dates, through December 31, 2028, when Bless’s Today screen shows St. Marie-Madeleine Postel. Where the US calendar keeps another celebration that day, it is named instead and no rank is given.

Date	In the US calendar	Color	Mass readings (US)
Friday, July 16, 2027	Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time	Green	Exodus 11:10—12:14 · Psalm 116:12-13, 15 and 16bc, 17-18 · John 10:27 · Matthew 12:1-8
Sunday, July 16, 2028	Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time	Green	Deuteronomy 30:10-14 · Psalm 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37 · Colossians 1:15-20 · Cf. John 6:63c, 68c · Luke 10:25-37

Readings

Later citations were computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

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