ANDRIVEAU, APOLLINE

ANDRIVEAU, APOLLINE. - Daughter of Charity, born in France at Saint-Pourçain (Allier) on 7 May 1810. Having embraced the religious life in Paris (1833), she was assigned to the school for girls and to the service of the poor for more than sixty years, first at Troyes (1834–72), then at Caen (1872–87), and finally at Montolieu (Aude), where she died on 23 February 1895. At Troyes Sister A. was favoured with the visions that gave rise to devotion to the red Scapular of the Passion. On 26 July 1846 she had a vision of Jesus, who held in his right hand a scarlet scapular upon which the cross with the instruments of the Passion was depicted, and around it the inscription: “Holy Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, save us!” On the reverse was the image of the Most Sacred Hearts and the invocation: “Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, protect us!” Pius IX approved and enriched the new scapular with indulgences (25 June 1847); moreover, in 1848, he authorized the superior general of the Mission to delegate any priest to bless and impose this scapular “not as the insignia of a confraternity, but as a simple devotion.”