On Sunday, May 27, the sisters and associates participating in The Lace Is Not Yet Finished program spent the day in Lyon to visit Sisters of St. Joseph historical sites: the chapel of the Congregation of Lyon, the Heritage Room, Mother St. John Fontbonne's bedroom and gravesite.
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| Bas-en-Basset, birthplace of Jeanne Fontbonne. Note the cobbler's tools over the door meant to indicate his services. |
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| Altar of the local parish in Bas-en-Basset |
The City of Monistrol acknowledges the centuries-long presence of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Monistrol where they cared for poor sick people at the hospital in Monistrol in 1660 and later built a school in 1820.
A street was named after Mother St. John Fontbonne in Monistrol near the convent where she lived during her early years in the community as a sister and as a superior.
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Altar of the church in Monistrol where Jeanne Fontbonne entered the Sisters of St. Joseph.
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| Prayer at the gravesite of Mother St. John Fontbonne |
The group also went to Fourvière Hill to visit the chapel where Mother St. John prayed for the sisters she sent to America as well as the Notre Dame Basilica. Before they left for a two-hour drive back to Le Puy, they spent an hour in the old city of Lyon.
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