1. Catherine Jarrige became a Dominican tertiary in Mauriac and began tending to the needs of the poor.
15 Facts About Catherine Jarrige
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Catherine Jarrige worked in the fields with her parents and siblings.
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Catherine Jarrige liked to dance the Bourree, but renounced it.
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Catherine Jarrige performed the dance at her sister's wedding, but pledged the next morning to never do it again - and she never did.
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Catherine Jarrige spent all her life providing for the spiritual and material needs of the poor, and she went about collecting alms for them and inspiring the most reticent to awaken their conscience.
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Catherine Jarrige was devoted to the most humble and poorest people and provided them with food, clothing, and spiritual comfort.
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Catherine Jarrige helped the priests who refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the new regime.
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Catherine Jarrige hid them in the forests of the Auze valley, and guided them at night to administer the sacraments to families.
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Catherine Jarrige procured vestments for them in secret as well as wine and wafers to celebrate Mass, risking her life many times.
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Catherine Jarrige carried messages to priests in hiding, and brought them warnings of patrols and roundups.
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Catherine Jarrige managed to save all the priests she helped, save for one: Francois Filiol.
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In 1793 Catherine Jarrige accompanied the priest to the gallows for support.
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Catherine Jarrige was arrested several times in 1794, but authorities released her each time, fearing riots since she was a popular figure.
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Catherine Jarrige asked him to act as if he were intoxicated and to let her be the one to do the talking if a soldier neared them.
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Catherine Jarrige visited prisons and supervised the restoration of the partially destroyed parish church.