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In 1610, St. Francis de Sales and St. Jeanne de Chantal considered a religious congregation of Christ which manifests virtues of gentleness, humility and simplicity. Today, the Visitation in the world are preparing for the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Order, which will take place next year.

To help celebrate, the Brooklyn Visitation Monastery in New York has launched a new website that explains the Order's charism and spirit of the community. The community, located within beautiful gardens, overlooking the Manhattan skyline. The group is contemplative, while the sisters to administer a primary school, private school for girls, Visitation Academy.

"St. Francis de Sales Directory refines spiritual movements of our soul throughout our daily activities and spiritual exercises," said the Sisters' website. "His lectures address all situations of human and show us how to react spiritually, as do the Conferences of Saint Jane." We are blessed with a basic evangelical spirituality that leads to the sweetness, humility, patience and simplicity can also be divided with people of all calls professionally. "

In honor of the Jubilee, the Holy Father Benedict XVI issued a decree granting a plenary indulgence to all those who worship in a monastery until 2010 Visitation.

The Lord Jesus told His Sacred Heart in the Order of the Visitation in a special way, by revelations in the past at St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a Visitation of Paray-le-Monial, France.

For more information, go to www.BrooklynVisitationMonastery.org . The site was designed by www.TreeFrogClick.com web services. TreeFrogClick offers website design, video and promotion services for communities and Catholic organizations.