Salesian Timelien

By Andrew Borror
  • Aug 21, 1567

    SFDS birth

  • Jan 23, 1572

    Saint Jane De Chantals Birth

  • SFDS

    SFDS was ordained as a priest

  • SFDS books

    He wrote The Introduction Into the devout life

  • SFDS

    Saint Francis and Jane founded the Visitation Sisters of Holy Mary

  • Saint Jane De Chantal

    She met Saint Francis for the first time in 1610

  • SFDS books

    He also wrote Treatise on the Love of God

  • SFDS Death

  • Saint Jane De Chantals death

  • Birth of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

  • Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

    At the age of 27 she joined the visitation community

  • Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

    She had a vision of Jesus and Jesus showed her his sacred Heart for the first time

  • Saint Jane De Chantal

    She was cannonized in 1767

  • Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis is born

  • Mother Mary De Sales Chappius

    Although she was sick she joined the Visitation community of Fribourg in 1816

  • Father Brissons Birth

  • Father Brisson

    He was ordained a priest on December 19 1840

  • Saint Leonie Aviats Birth

  • Saint Leonie Aviat

    On October 11 1871 she joined the Oblate Sisters of Saint Francis De Sales that she and Father Brisson founded

  • Mother Mary De Sales Chappius

    She convinced Father Louis Brisson to start a religious community of men dedicated to Saint Francis De Sales

  • Mother Mary De Sales Chappius death

    Her feats day is on founders day every year

  • Father Brisson

    Father Brisson finally started the all men Oblates of Saint Francis De Sales

  • Father Brissons’ death

    Father Brisson died on February 2 1908 and we honor him every year on Founders day

  • Saint Leonie Aviats Death

  • Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque was canonized

  • The Seven Visitation Martyrs

    The seven sisters were martyred during the Spanish civil war