Battle of Jaricot

Hannah being the great sport she is, we went to a musical entitled “Pauline,” put on by a group of youth from Dijon- and their priest (I think). I’d love to see the same youth do Godspell…with a little better direction. But I learned all about the venerable Pauline Jaricot from Lyon, a rich young woman from a good family who abandoned everything to found some order of Dominicans and a society for the propogation of the faith…by asking a bunch of her poor worker neighbors to each donate a sou (cent) and pray for the missions and to also ask ten people to do the same…The new evangelization two hundred years early?

She also formed “living rosaries” out of her worker neighbors by having them each draw a mystery and pray a decade of the rosary each day, meditating on that mystery, so that between them they were saying all fifteen of the mysteries every day.

I think towards the end of her life someone else took credit for all her work and she was humiliated and poor and alone… St. Thérèse was to expound on those themes later in the century, though…

We all got a tiny jar of mustard seeds with a picture of Pauline’s portrait on them, bearing the legend: “J’ai aimé Jésus-Christ plue que tout sur la terre” (I loved Jesus Christ more than anything in the world), again something St. Thérèse would later explore in her own life.