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When she was a child, Jeanne-Antide liked to walk along the stream of La Baume which provided water to the family tannery. Later, during the “Terror” (1793-94) and till 1797, she would open a school in the village that the Revolutionary authorities immediately closed. But she re-opened it a few yards away.
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To express his thanks for the protection of the village during WW2, the Abbot Perrey, priest of Sancey had a statue of St Jeanne-Antide built on the “Plane Trees Place” at the entrance of the village. In 1976, the statue was transferred in front of the family house.
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It is in the heart of Sancey-l’Eglise that Jeanne-Antide’s vocation was born. 1776: Jeanne-Antide made her solemn communion.
1782: In the Chapel of the Virgin, when her mother died, Jeanne-Antide asked the Holy Virgin to be under her protection.
1786: She was asked by the Abbot Ligier, priest of Sancey, to open a catechism and reading school in the Presbytary where she taught the children of the village the basics of the French language. Her vocation as a teacher was born.
1807: She personally inaugurated the school ruled by the Congregation in Sancey-Le Grand.
Today, the private secondary school of the village is named after St Jeanne-Antide’s legacy.