Vatican cardinal: Jaricot a ‘bright star’ in Church’s evangelizing efforts

April 28, 2015

Cardinal Fernando Filoni, the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, traveled to Lyon, France, where he upheld Ven. Pauline-Marie Jaricot as a model for lay involvement in the Church’s evangelization.

Jaricot (1799-1862), who founded the Society of the Propagation of the Faith and the Living Rosary Association, was a “bright star of that era of strong evangelization,” Cardinal Filoni preached at on April 26 at a Mass at the Church of Saint-Nizier, where Jaricot’s remains are interred.

“She was not interested in founding a religious female or male missionary congregation, but loved to involve the laity in the evangelizing action by virtue of the faith of all the baptized,” he continued.

“Along with St. Francis Xavier and St. Thérèse,” Jaricot represents “the third element of the tripod on which missionary work stands,” Cardinal Filoni said.

 

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Further information:

• Nessuno fuori dall’ovile (L’Osservatore Romano, p. 7)
• Cardinal Filoni in Lyon: "Pauline-Marie Jaricot, touched by faith, was a torch bearer" (Fides)