Your very humble aunt and servant.
P.S.—Allow me very affectionately to salute good M. Robert Dapantor[A] and all your household. Dear Sister Parise[B] took the habit on St. Claud's Day. Mgr. de Langres gave it to her and performed the whole ceremony. She sends you affectionate messages, as does likewise the deceased[C] Mother of Bourges and all that little family of nine daughters. If they dared they would all beg of you respectfully to salute on their part his Grace the Archbishop.
[A] Former tutor of the young Baron de Chantal.
[B] Sister Marie Claire Parise was the foundress of the Visitation Monastery at Dijon—a humble and fervent soul. While still a secular she asked God never to permit her to be without suffering of some kind for His love. He heard her prayer, and her life was a continual interior martyrdom, nevertheless joy and tranquility of soul never abandoned her. Having with the utmost solicitude and care established the monastery of Dijon, she was sent to Beaune, on its foundation in 1632, and there died in the odour of sanctity.
[C] A nickname given by the Saint to Sister Anne Marie Rosset when she was deposed from the Superiorship of Bourges.
L.
To Mother Anne Catherine de Beaumont, Superior of the First Monastery of Paris.
Vive ✠ Jésus!
Dijon,
30th June, 1622.