Life of the Reverend Mother Jeanne Chézard de Matel, foundress of the Order of the Incarnate Word and the Blessed Sacrament, according to original manuscripts / by the Reverend Mother Saint Pierre of Jesus ; translated from the original French by Henry Churchill Semple . er of God and went away to bury their sorrows inthe peaceful and flourishing monastery of Lyons. Motherde Bely after having struggled valiantly up to the endand after defending with her indefatigable pen the rightswhich she had not been able to safeguard otherwise, diedsix years later, at Lyons, on April 23, 1706, aged 73 yea
Life of the Reverend Mother Jeanne Chézard de Matel, foundress of the Order of the Incarnate Word and the Blessed Sacrament, according to original manuscripts / by the Reverend Mother Saint Pierre of Jesus ; translated from the original French by Henry Churchill Semple . er of God and went away to bury their sorrows inthe peaceful and flourishing monastery of Lyons. Motherde Bely after having struggled valiantly up to the endand after defending with her indefatigable pen the rightswhich she had not been able to safeguard otherwise, diedsix years later, at Lyons, on April 23, 1706, aged 73 years. One of the first historians of Mother de Matel says:Thus ended the House of the Incarnate Word of Paris,as the Foundress had foretold on many occasions whenspeaking of that monastery which had been a cause of herdearest hopes and of her greatest troubles; a scene of thegreatest injustices and most heroic virtues; a memorableexample that when God does not build, all others labor Before we close this chapter, we note how Providence,when permitting the saints to be persecuted, reserves toitself the punishments of their persecutors. We have iL,ife of Mother de Matel by a Father of the Society of in 1743. G20 LIFE OF JEANNE CHEZARD DE MATEL. AFTER THE DEATH OF MOTHER DE MATEL 621 proofs that all who contributed to the injustices of whichMother de Matel and her monastery were the victims, weresooner or later signally afflicted. The nefarious decree of the Parliament had scarcelybeen rendered when unexjiected misfortunes came upon thefirst President. In a few days he lost a great part of hisfortune, and several members of his family were suddenlycarried away by death. His son-in-law, who was Procurator General, saw him-self frustrated in the pursuit of rights which he thoughthe had to a considerable sum, and lost, at the same time,his father, his wife, and his son. Mr. Hebert and two other councilmen, who hadespoused the views of the first President, in t
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