The life of Mimi
in few dates
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1915
8 July, birth of Georgette Faniel in Montreal. Baptism at the church of the Immaculate Conception two days later. Her father calls her Mimi.
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1920
Death of grandma Beaudry. -
1921
First pneumonia. First interior locutions. -
1922
6 May, Sacrament of Confirmation. -
1922
Sacrement de la confirmation, le 6 mai. -
1923
Coma and healing at Saint-Justine Hospital. Her father, Alfred, meets Brother André at the Oratory who tells him that his child will be a favorite of Saint Joseph.
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1923-1925
Separation with her family because of her mother’s illness. -
1926
Begins lessions in singing and theory. During twenty years, she belongs to several choirs. -
1927-1928
Several stays at Notre-Dame Hospital. Meets Brother André who encourages her in the devotion of the Way of the Cross. -
1929
Consecrates herself to Mary in the movement Les Enfants de Marie. (The Children of Mary) -
1930
Assists Father Émile Fontaine, Director of the choir of her parish. -
1932
Monitor in a vacation colony. Saved from drowning by the Virgin Mary. Meets Father Blaise-Émile Pleau who be a great spiritual help. He will die on the 14th of September 1964.
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1936
Meets Father Paul Godin who guides her in her spiritual life. He will die on the 15th of August 1991. -
1939
Sled accident in the snow that will handicap her for the rest of her life. -
1944
Baccalaureate in piano from the Royal Conservatory of Montreal. -
1948
Death of her brother Roger at the age of 37.
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1948-1966
Spiritual direction of Joseph Gamache, sj. He dies on the 30th of January 1966.
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1949
Pronounces the vow of chastity.
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1950
7 February, death of her father, Alfred, at the age of 70.
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1950
Receives the wounds of Jesus on her hands and feet.
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1950-52
Spiritual notes destroyed by Father Gamache. Does volunteer work for the poor and migrants during forty years.
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1953
28 February, act of offering to Divine Mercy for the salvation of the world through the Association of Victim Souls of Mary Mediatrix.
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1953
22 February, Spiritual engagement with Jesus.
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1953
25 April, receives the Crown of Thorns.
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1953
27 May, receives the 6th wound of Jesus, on the left shoulder.
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1953
Beginning of her spiritual notes that she will continue to write until 1999.
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1954
8 January, tragic death of her sister, Fernande and her daughter, Diane.
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1954
16 April, mystical marriage. Love through suffering with a greater intimacy with Jesus. Consecration to Mary.
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1955
Operation. Vow of conformity to the will of God.
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1956
Composition of the prayer of total giving. Receives permission from the Archdiocese of Montreal to distribute it in 1981.
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1957
Operation on her spine. Handicapped following the operation.
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1959
Accepts the agony of the heart, soul, and spirit.
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1960
Meets Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger at Saint-Sacrament Parish during the “Great Mission”.
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1960
Death of her mother, Georgine at the age of 78.
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1960-1964
Offering of her life for John XXIII, prays and suffers for the spiritual success of Vatican II.
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1962
Two Sisters of Charity of Ottawa join Mimi’s small team for the mission of saving souls.
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1963
Makes her profession in the Third-Order of Our-Lady-of-Mount-Carmel, while remaining a lay person.
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1964
Vision of the ordination of the Girard Fathers. Accepts to become their spiritual mother.
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1964
Fire near her apartment and intervention of the Virgin Mary.
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1966-1983
Spiritual direction of Father Paul Mayer, sj. Mimi experiences the nights of the faith. Interior locutions of the Father, of Jesus and of Mary continue, as well as the combat with the Evil One.
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1978
First encounter of Father Guy Girard with Mimi. Election of Pope John Paul II. Mimi will be very close to this pope through her spiritual maternity.
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1982
1st of July, mark of the Alliance that has the form of a number 2 embedded in her flesh.
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1983-2002
Spiritual direction of Father Armand Girard. He writes Mimi many letters concerning her experiences. Father Guy Girard becomes her spiritual counsellor and responsible for Mimi’s writings. She experiences the mystical incarnation by becoming priest and victim with Jesus. She experiences during several years the phenomenon of the transfixion of the heart.
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1984
John Paul II and his trip to Canada in September.
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1984-1985
26 Juin, prodigy of the golden crown of blood in the chalice during the mass of the Girard Fathers with Mimi. This grace will happen several times. The Girard Fathers’ trips to Medjugorje and to Rome. They meet Pope John Paul II and speak to him about Mimi.
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1984-1985
Mimi experiences in her body the pregnancy of Jeannine Brasseur. Andrée-Ann is born healthy on the 19th of April 1985.
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1985
Inspired by the Holy Spirit, Mimi offers her life for the approval of the apparitions of Medjugorje. In October, she is hospitalized following a heart attack.
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1986
Testimony of Mimi in a book written by the Girard Fathers concerning Medjugorje.
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1988
Healing of a paralysis after receiving the consecrated host.
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1986-1995
Letters to Father Janko Bubalo. Several trips to the hospital.
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1988
13 August, first visit of Suzanne Dignard who will become her spiritual daughter.
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1989
Strange fracture of the sternum after falling in her apartment. A night of the spirit.
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1993
Cardinal Grégoire asks her to come to his bedside. He will die on the 30th of October.
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1994
8th of March, death of her friend, Régine Guénette who lived twenty years with her. Moves to Saint-Joseph Home with the Little Sisters of the Poor. Suzanne Dignard will accompany her till her death.
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1998
Writing of the first half of her life Autopsie de mon âme.
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1999
End of her spiritual notes.
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2000
Nostalgia of God and Heaven.
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2001
Out-of-the-body experience, indescribable joy. Fracture of the left ankle.
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2002
2nd of July, dies at Notre-Dame Hospital in Montreal, six days before her 87th birthday. Funeral on the 5th of July at the church of the Immaculate-Conception.
Source : Georgette Faniel, le don total. Biographie spirituelle. Montréal, Novalis, 2018, pp. 239-243.