(Catholic Online) Isabel sister of St. Louis IX and daughter of King Louis VIII of France, Isabel would refuse offers of marriage from several noble suitors to continue her life of virginity consecrated to God. Isabel ministered to the sick and poor, following the death of her mother, she founded the ‘Franciscan Monastery of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary’ in Paris, where she then lived in austerity but never became a Nun and refused to become its Abbess.
- Jesus: “Do unto others
as you would have them do to you.” –Luke 6:31
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