McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Visitation (Of St. Mary), Order Of The

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Visitation (Of St. Mary), Order Of The

Subjects in this Topic:

Vise
Vishnu
Visible Church
Vision
Visit
Visitants
Visitatio Liminum
Visitation
Visitation (Of St. Mary), Festival Of The
Visitation (Of St. Mary), Order Of The
Visitation Of The Sick
Visitation Or (The Blessed Virgin) Mary
Visitation (2)
Visitation, The Saxon
Visitor
Viso, Fray Cristobal dei
Vispered
Visscher, Cornelius
Visucius and Visucia

is a congregation of nuns, instituted in 1610, by St. Francis de Sales and a St. Jeanne Françoise de Chantal. The design of the order was to receive those women who, by reason of their infirmities of body or mind, their extreme poverty, previous errors of life, or state of widowhood, were excluded from the other regular communities. See Migne, Helyot, Ordres Religieux, 3, 922 sq.; Jameson, Legends of the Monastic Orders, p. 447 sq. SEE VISITANTS.