he superioress is only called
Ancelle, or servant, for humility. St. Jane took the habit herself in
1504, but died on the 4th of February, 1505. The Huguenots burned her
remains at Bourges, in 1562.[2] She was canonized by Clement XII. in
1738, but had been venerated at Bourges from the time of her death. See
the brief of Benedict XIV., concerning her immemorial veneration, t. 2,
de Canoniz. l. 2, c. 24, p. 296. Bullarii, t. 16, p. 104, and Helyot,
Hist. des Ord. Rel. t. 7, p. 339. Also, Henschenius, p. 575. Chatelain's
Notes on the Mart. Her life, compiled by Andrew Fremiot, archbishop of
Bourges; by Hilarion de Coste, of the Order of Minims, among his
illustrious ladies; another printed by the order of Doni d'Attichi,
bishop of Autun, in 1656, (who had from his youth professed the same
Order of the Minims, of which he wrote the Annals, and a History of the
French Cardinals.) See also, on St. Jane, Godeau, Eloges des Princesses,
&c.

Footnotes:
1. The imitation of the ten principal virtues, of which the mysteries
of the Blessed Virgin, honored by the Church in her yearly
festivals, furnish perfect models, is the peculiar end of this
religious institute, which takes its name from the first and
principal of the joyful mysteries of the mother of God. These nuns
wear a gray habit with a red scapular, with a gold cross (or of
silver gilt) hanging before their breast, and a gold ring on one of
their fingers. A noble Genoese widow, called Mary Victoria Fornaro,
instituted in 1604 another Order of the same title, called of the
Celestial Annunciades, Annuntiatae Coelestinae. As an emblem of
heaven, their habit is white, with a blue mantle to represent the
azure of the heavens. The most rigorous poverty, and a total
separation from the world, are prescribed. The religious are only
allowed to speak to externs six times in a year, and then only to
near relations, the men to those of the first, the women to those of
the first and second degree. See the life of ven. Mary Victoria
Fornaro, by F. Ambrose Spinola, Jesuit; and Hist. des Ordres Relig.
t. 4, p. 297.
2. See Henschenius, p. 578.

ST. ISIDORE OF PELUSIUM.

HE was a monk from his youth, and became superior of a monastery in the
neighborhood of that city, in the fifth age. Facundus and Suidas assure
us that he was promoted to the dignity of priest. He was looked upon as
a living rule of religious perfec