XXIX.
To Sister Anne Marie Rosset, Assistant at Annecy.
Vive ✠ Jésus!
Grenoble, 1618.
It will be a great comfort to you, my very dear Sister, to see His Lordship,[A] and to hear that all the people here expect to become more fervent in the service of Our Lord by means of this house. God grant it may be so! What a consolation it is to hear that Sister Paule Jéronyme is fulfilling so well her very important charge. I hope all our dear Sisters will by a faithful and strict observance of our holy Rules advance every day in the way of Our Lord. To this fidelity, in the name of our sweetest Saviour, I exhort them, and I embrace them all in spirit with true and most sincere love. They should continue as the Rule teaches, and with earnestness, to pray for the health and the growth in holiness of his Lordship. And let them neither forget us, nor the other new and dear foundations that are being planted here and there by the hand of Our Lord; for these ought to be as dear to us as our own, since it is the divine Will that we dwell in perfect union of heart, as by the grace of God we do. Salute all our friends for me, especially dear Madame de la Valbonne, not forgetting my poor old Sister Anne Jacqueline, nor my friends the workmen, for whom I have a great liking.
[A] St. Francis de Sales left Grenoble to return to Annecy just at this time.
XXX.
To Sister Paul Jéronyme de Monthoux, Mistress of Novices at Annecy.
Vive ✠ Jésus!
Grenoble,
26th April, 1618.