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{{short description|French Catholic religious foundress and saint}}
{{Infobox saint
|image = Portrait, St. Marie Madeleine Postel, Sisters of Christian Schools of Mercy.jpg
|caption = Portrait, ca. 1840
|honorific_prefix= [[Canonization|Saint]]
|name = Marie-Madeleine Postel
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1756|11|28}}
|birth_place = [[Barfleur]], [[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
|beatified_date = 17 May 1908
|beatified_place = [[Saint Peter's Basilica]], [[Kingdom of Italy]]
|beatified_by = [[Pope Pius X]]
|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.
The end of the Revolution saw Postel take up teaching and catechizing in [[Cherbourg]] where she taught around 300 children.<ref name=SEB/> Postel made her religious profession into the [[Third Order of Saint Francis]] in 1798 (while assuming her religious name) and founded the Sisters of the Christian Schools in Cherburg on 8 September 1807 which was met with little success until 1832 when she acquired a derelict convent in [[St-Sauveur-le-Vicomte]] to use as her headquarters which then prompted growth within the order. The Bishop of Coutances Claude-Louis Rousseau issued diocesan approval for her order and it went on to receive the papal decree of praise from [[Pope Pius IX]] on 29 April 1859; it received full papal approval much later in 1901.<ref name=SQPN/> The order based itself on the Rule of the Franciscan Third Order though this later changed in 1837 to be based upon that of the De La Salle Brothers which also prompted a name change for the congregation.<ref name=RC/>
Postel died in 1846; her order continues its work in places such as [[Romania]] and [[Mozambique]] and in 2005 had 442 religious in 69 different locations worldwide.<ref name=SEB/>
==Canonization==
The cause for Postel's canonization began under [[Pope Leo XIII]] on 27 July 1897 at which stage Postel became titled as a [[Servant of God]]; Leo XIII later confirmed that Postel had lived a life of [[heroic virtue]] and named her as [[Venerable]] on 31 May 1903. [[Pope Pius X]] later signified on 22 January 1908 his approval to two investigated healings as miracles attributed to her and so beatified her on 17 May 1908. [[Pope Pius XI]] confirmed two additional miracles and canonized Postel on 24 May 1925.
==References==
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==Further reading==
{{commons category|Marie-Madeleine Postel}}
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==External links==
* [http://newsaints.faithweb.com/year/1846.htm Hagiography Circle]
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