File JM-CPN/A/4A3/1 - Mother Xavier Deschamps's personal documents

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JM-CPN/A/4A3/1

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Mother Xavier Deschamps's personal documents

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  • 1863-01-01-1889-06-28 (Creation)

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4 A 3. 1/1. Diary kept almost daily from 1863 to her death, called «carnets de conscience». Autograph; 3 binded notebooks and one notebook with a few pages. With typed extracts from Mother Xavier’s diary, 76 pages. With extracts from spiritual notes (relations with her spiritual director, Father Theodore Herve, Jesuit (from Blois, then Tours).
4 A 3. 1/2. Pictures: photographs of her father and her brother Edmond. Photocopies of the photograph of Mother Xavier with her genealogy and her poem «La nacelle du Maître» (see excerpts of her spiritual diary, January 4, 1871).
4 A 3. 1/3. Narrative of her vocation: uncomplete narrative, written just before her death on June 28th, 1889.
From 1/4 to 1/9, documents given to Mother Marie-Agnès Savoye by the Fayoum Carmelite convent in October 2013.
4 A 3. 1/4. Autograph notes about the Carmelite convent of the Pater Noster's foundation.
4 A 3. 1/5. Five autograph notebooks about how to create artificial flowers and fruits, pasta, and notes related to vegetable garden seeds.
4 A 3. 1/6. Roses samples.
4 A 3. 1/7. Autograph copies about general elections.
4 A 3. 1/8. Accounts (1876-1878).

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