side." Her reputation for sanctity and sound management resulted in many visits by (and donations from) aristocratic women. The order had 13 houses by the time de Sales died, and 86 before Chantal herself died at the Visitation Convent in Moulins, aged 69. Vincent de Paul served as her spiritual director after de Sales' death. Her favorite devotions involved the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Sacred Heart of Mary. Chantal was buried in the Annecy convent next to de Sales. The order had 164 houses by 1767, when she was canonized. Chantal outlived her son (who died fighting Huguenots and English on the Île de Ré during the century's religious wars) and two of her three daughters, but left extensive correspondence. Her granddaughter also became a famous writer, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné. Veneration She was beatified on 21 November 1751 by Pope Benedict XIV, and canonized on 16 July 1767 by Pope Clement XIII. Saint Jane Frances's feast day was included in the General Roman Calendar in 1769, two years after she was canonized. Her feast was set as 21 August. In the 1969 revision of the calendar, her feast was moved to 12 December, to be closer to the day of her death, which occurred on 13 December 1641, the feast of Saint Lucy. In 2001, Pope John Paul II included in the General Roman Calendar the memorial of Our Lady of Guadalupe on 12 December. Consequently, he moved the memorial of Saint Jane Frances to 12 August. In 2022, Jane Frances de Chantal was officially added to the Episcopal Church liturgical calendar with a feast day shared with Francis de Sales on 12 December. Jane Frances de Chantal is invoked as the patron of forgotten people, widows, and parents who are separated from their children. She also left a number of exemplary letters of spiritual direction.<ref>Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal, Letters of Spiritual Direction (Classics of Western Spirituality); translated by Péronne Marie Thibert, V.H.M. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1988.</ref> See also Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, patron saint archive Bibliography . This book was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum'' in 1913. References External links Saint Jane Frances de Chantal at Catholic Online Saint Jeanne de Chantal at Patron Saints Index Saint Jane Frances De Chantal School in North Hollywood, California 1572 births 1641 deaths People from Dijon Visitandine nuns Founders of Catholic religious