OUR SISTERS
AND SUNFLOWERS ...

Our foundress, St. Julie Billiart, often spoke of the sunflower straining to follow the sun as it moved across the sky. She saw this as a metaphor for the soul, which focuses — if we let it — and follows the direction of God moving across our lives.

You will find the sunflower on many publications associated with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.

Simplicity resembles that beautiful flower called the sunflower, which follows the sun and ever turns towards it. So, too, the mind and heart of the one who possesses simplicity are always turned towards God.

— St. Julie Billiart,
Foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame

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