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Sr Anne Marie was a woman who operated from her heart and who embraced the poor, the rich, the destitute – no one was rejected.Javouhey, Anne Marie (A)
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Anne Marie Javouhey was responsible for the revival of Roman Catholic missions in Africa. The suppression of the Jesuits from 1773 to 1814, the ravages of the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic wars left the missions in a state of almost total collapse.
These events occurred just before an explosive revitalization of religious orders, however, which resulted in a new missionary era that would parallel, and in many ways be part of, Western colonial expansion.
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Javouhey was the pioneer in this missionary movement at a critical juncture.
Javouhey was the daughter of a peasant family that hid priests who had refused to take the anticlerical oath of allegiance to the French Revolution.
One of the priests encouraged her to pursue a religious life, and she left for the freedom of Switzerland to pursue her goal. With