Salesian timeline

  • Aug 21, 1567

    Saint Francis was born

  • Jan 23, 1572

    St Jane was born

  • Saint Francis became a priest

  • St Francis and st Jane meet

  • St Francis publishes his first book The Introduction to the Devout Life

  • St Francis and St Jane founded the Visitation sisters of Holy Mary

  • St Janes 4 children were ready to be on their own, so Jane began her life as a sister of the Visitation of Holy Mary

  • St Francis publishes his second book Treatise on the Love of God

  • St Francis died of a stroke

  • St Jane died

  • St Margret Mary Alacoque was born

  • St Francis was canonized a saint

  • St Margret Mary Alacoque joined the Visitation community in Paray-le-Monial

  • Margret Mary had a vision of Jesus ho showed her his Sacred Heart

  • St Margret Mary died

  • St Jane was canonized

  • Mother Mary de Sales Chappuis was born

  • Mary de Sales entered the Visitation community and professed her vows

  • Louis Brisson was born

  • Louis Brisson was ordained a diocesan priest

  • Leonie Aviat was born

  • Leonie Aviat professed her vows in the Oblate Sisters of Saint Francis de Sales

  • Mary de Sales died

  • Louis Brisson professed vows of poverty

  • Louis Brisson died

  • Leonie Aviat died

  • Margret Mary was canonized

  • The Seven Visitation Martyrs were martyred during the Spanish Civil War

  • Leonie Aviat was canonized