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Line 1: {{short description\|French Catholic religious foundress and saint}} {{Infobox saint \|image = Portrait, St. Marie Madeleine Postel, Sisters of Christian Schools of Mercy.jpg Line 5 ⟶ 7: \|name = Marie-Madeleine Postel \|birth_date = {{Birth date\|df=yes\|1756\|11\|28}} \|birth_place = [[Barfleur]], [[~~Manche, France\|Manche~~Normandy]], [[Kingdom of France]] \|death_date = {{Death date and age\|df=yes\|1846\|07\|16\|1756\|11\|28}} \|death_place = [[Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte]], [[Manche, France\|Manche]], [[July Monarchy\|French Kingdom]] \|titles = Religious \|venerated_in = [[Catholic Church]] \|feast_day = [[16 July]] \|attributes = {{unbulleted list\|Religious habit\|[[Crucifix]]}} \|patronage = Sisters of Christian Schools Line 18 ⟶ 20: \|canonized_date = 24 May 1925 \|canonized_place = Saint Peter's Basilica, Kingdom of Italy \|canonized_by = [[Pope Pius XI]] }} }} '''Marie-Madeleine Postel''' (28 November 1756 – 16 July 1846) -, born '''Julie Françoise-Catherine Postel''' -, was a [[French people\|French]] [[Catholic Church\|Catholic]] [[Nun\|professed religious]] and the founder of the Sisters of Christian Schools.<ref name=SQPN>{{cite web\|url=https://catholicsaints.info/saint-marie-madeleine-postel/\|title=Saint Marie-Madeleine Postel\|publisher=Saints SQPN\|date=21 August 2017\|accessdate=4 October 2017}}</ref><ref name=SEB>{{cite web\|url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/91039\|title=Santa Maria Maddalena Postel\|date=\|publisher=Santi e Beati\|accessdate=4 October 2017}}</ref> Postel was also a member from the [[Third Order of Saint Francis]]<ref name=SEB/> and had served as a [[schoolteacher]] after the [[French Revolution]] where she oversaw the education of around 300 children. The Revolution saw her use her then-disbanded school to house fugitive priests despite the great risk that posed to her own life.<ref name=RC>{{cite web\|url=http://www.roman-catholic-saints.com/saint-mary-magdalen-postel.html\|title=Saint Mary Magdalen Postel\|date=\|publisher=Roman Catholic Saints\|accessdate=4 October 2017}}</ref><ref name=SEB/> Postel's beatification was celebrated in 1908 and [[Pope Pius XI]] later canonized her in mid-1925.<ref name=SQPN/> ==Life== [[File:Tombeau postel.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|left\|Postel's tomb in St-Sauveur-le-Vicomte.]] Julie Françoise-Catherine Postel was born on 28 November 1756 in [[Barfleur]], [[Normandy]], to the fisherman Jean Postel and Thérèse Levallois.<ref name=SEB/> Postel was the aunt to [[Placide Viel]].<ref name=SQPN/><ref name=RC/> The [[Order of Saint Benedict\|Benedictine nuns]] oversaw her education in [[Valognes]] after her initial schooling and it was during that time that she discerned a call to serve [[God]] in the religious life; she took a private vow to remain [[Chastity\|chaste]] as a step forward in this dream.<ref name=RC/><ref name=SQPN/> Postel founded a school for girls in Barfleur in 1774 that became a center for underground religious activities during the [[French Revolution]] for those who were unwilling to support the new regime. This school had been shut down at the Revolution's beginning.<ref name=SQPN/> Authorization was granted to her to keep the [[Blessed Sacrament]] in her house as the conflict continued and she carried it on her person at times to provide the [[Viaticum]] to those who were ill and at the verge of death.<ref name=RC/> The [[Jacobins]] often suspected her but never made allegations and left her alone. Line 50 ⟶ 51: {{Portal bar\|Saints\|Biography\|Catholicism\|History\|France}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Postel, Marie-Madeleine}} [[Category:1756 births]] [[Category:1846 deaths]] [[Category:19th-century Christian saints]] [[Category:19th-century French ~~people~~nuns]] [[Category:19th-century venerated Christians]] [[Category:Beatifications by Pope Pius X]] [[Category:Canonizations by Pope Pius XI]] [[Category:Founders of Catholic religious communities]] [[Category:18th-century French ~~Roman Catholic religious sisters and~~ nuns]] [[Category:French Roman Catholic saints]] [[Category:French schoolteachers]] [[Category:Members of the Third Order of Saint Francis]] [[Category:People from Manche]] ~~[[Category:Venerated Catholics]]~~