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title: "St. Marie-Madeleine Postel: Feast Day July 16 · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/saints/st-marie-madeleine-postel/
description: "St. Marie-Madeleine Postel, Virgin. Remembered on July 16, died 1846. Read their life in Bless."
---

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](https://blessbible.app/saints/july/#16) |
| Title | Virgin |
| Died | 1846 |
| Next on Bless’s Today screen | [Friday, July 16, 2027](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-marie-madeleine-postel/#calendar) |

## 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](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/07/16/) | 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](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/07/16/) | 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.

[July 15 St. Bonaventure](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bonaventure/) [July 17 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne](https://blessbible.app/saints/carmelite-martyrs-of-compiegne/)

[All the saints of July](https://blessbible.app/saints/july/) [Born on July 16?](https://blessbible.app/saints/birthday/#07-16) [A saint for every day](https://blessbible.app/saints/)

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St. Marie-Madeleine Postel

Remembered on July 16

On this page

1. [Life](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-marie-madeleine-postel/#life)
2. [In the calendar](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-marie-madeleine-postel/#calendar)

In the app

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