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Saint Mary Magdalen Postel
(Sainte Marie-Madeleine Postel)

Feast Day – July 16

Julie Frances Catharine Postel, the daughter of a rope manufacturer, was born at Barfleur in Normandy on November 28, After her elementary education, she received further training from the Benedictine nuns at Volognes.

There she decided to devote her entire life to the service of God and her neighbor, and privately took the vow of chastity.

Five years after she opened a school for girls in La Bretonne, the French Revolution broke out.

During the persecution Saint Mary Magdalen Postel played a heroic part in helping the priests who were in hiding or in prison and in strengthening the faith of the loyal Catholics of Barfleur. She was authorized to keep the Blessed Sacrament in her house, and when conditions grew worse to carry the Blessed Sacrament on her person and even to administer Holy Viaticum to the dying in cases of emergency.

The Jacobins often suspected her,