Carthusian Saints (PDF) - Charterhouse of the Transfiguration

the gift of reading what is in other people’s heart. At the death of her
aunt in 1300 the Superior General appointed Rosaline as Prioress. She
held that office for twenty-nine years. It was during this time that her
friend, the Bishop of Fréjus, became Pope as John XXII. (3)
She died at the age of sixty-six with a great renown for holiness.
Immediately there were miracles: blind received their sight and sick
were cured. Five years after her death, in 1334, Pope John ordered to
open her tomb. Her body was found entirely incorrupt and it is still so
today. In 1602 it was transferred from the crypt to a newly built
chapel. In 1851 Blessed Pius IX authorized her feast for the diocese of
Fréjus, and in 1857 for the Carthusian Order. Today, the Carthusians
celebrate her on July 6, and her feast is a solemnity for the nuns of the
Order.
Prayer
Lord God, for love of You Saint Rosaline trampled underfoot
the flattering allurements of the world, that she
might adhere only to You. Help us to follow her example
and, turning away from things of earth, find our joy in
sharing Your heavenly gifts.
Editor’s Notes
1. After their solemn profession Carthusian nuns may receive virginal consecration.
Through this consecration the nun belongs in a new way to God and
follows Christ more closely. She becomes a symbol of the union of Christ
and the Church. The rite is accomplished by the Bishop who confers to the
consecrated virgin the veil, the stole, and the ring, which are the exterior
signs of her indissoluble union with the divine Spouse.
2. At that time, daily communion is not yet a custom.
3. Pope John XXII was one of the Popes of the so-called ‘Avignon papacy’,
the Roman Catholic papacy during the period 1309–1377, when the Popes
took up residence at Avignon (France) instead of at Rome, primarily because
of the current political conditions.
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