Pauline Jaricot lived 200 years ago in France and came from a well-to-do merchant family. <\/p>\n
After a profound conversion as a teenager, she founded an initiative focused on the development of missions: the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, which today has expanded into 4 institutions dedicated to missions.<\/p>\n
ARCHBISHOP GIAMPIETRO DAL TOSO To promote missions, Jaricot involved her neighbors. Together, they prayed for missionaries and contributed funds. The initiative spread to other countries and there was a year in which she raised over 2.5 million dollars.<\/p>\n Pope Gregory XVI saw her dedication as a concrete example of re-Christianizing the laity in the West. In fact, he even went to visit her.<\/p>\n ARCHBISHOP GIAMPIETRO DAL TOSO Pauline Jaricot is considered an example of a layperson committed to evangelization. She had a challenging life, marked by illness, but the difficulties did not dampen her missionary zeal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n JRB<\/p>\n KG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 20, 2022. Pauline Jaricot got her neighbors and everyday people involved in developing missions. There was one year in which she managed to raise over 2.5 million dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kOB0sOhsF08","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpaulinejaricoteng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpaulinejaricotint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPresident, Pontifical Mission Societies
\n<\/strong>Pauline Jaricot's real interest was to bring France back to the Gospel, a France that after the French Revolution had suffered a great secularization.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPresident, Pontifical Mission Societies
\n<\/strong>She said that she did not want to enter a convent nor did she feel the vocation to religious life because she saw the world as her monastery. I think the message she conveyed was this: the world is a place where one can live one's Christian faith and yet, it is also a place to be evangelized and transformed.<\/em><\/p>\n