Marie marguerite dyouville biography of barack

Marie-Marguerite Dufrost de Lajemmerais was born in Varennes, Quebec, on October 15, Her father had come from Brittany, France in Her mother was the daughter of a military officer from Carignan, Quebec, who had been governor of the settlement at Trois-Rivières. Marguerite’s mother’s brother was the explorer Pierre de la Vérendrye. The eldest of six children, Marguerite was only seven years old when her father died. There were hard times for the family because her mother had to wait six years before she began receiving the officers’ widows’ pension.

Thanks to the help of her great-grandfather, Pierre Boucher, Marguerite was able to study at the Ursuline boarding school for girls in Quebec City for two years. At 12, she returned to her family to help teach her brothers and sisters. On August 12, , she married François d’Youville. A fur and alcohol trader, he was unreliable and rather selfish. He died in , leaving Marguerite, who was pregnant for the sixth time, with two living child

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Alanna Loucks

Since , many scholars have written biographies about the life of Marie-Marguerite Dufrost de Lajemmerais (d’Youville), who was canonized in to become the first native-born Canadian to be declared a saint. However, the majority of these studies very briefly examine her early and married life, before she founded the Sisters of Charity of Montréal (the Grey Nuns) and took charge of the Hôpital-Général de Montréal in Yet by Marie-Marguerite was forty-six years old and had been a widow for almost two decades. Focusing on this one period of her life overlooks many of the experiences and relationships that shaped Marie-Marguerite’s creation of a religious community in eighteenth-century Montréal.

Unlike Jeanne Mance or Marie L’Incarnation, who traveled from France as religious women with a specific religiously motivated purpose, Marie-Marguerite’s life began as a member of a prominent family involved in territorial expansion and the fur trade. The familial and social co

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First Canadian- born saint article by Ellin Bessner, Canadian Press

 

With all the excitement this weekend about the Vatican naming Montreal&#;s Brother Andre as a saint, it took  me back to the big journalistic scoop inom had in March , when inom told Canadians that Canada would soon have the country&#;s first locally-born Catholic saint.

I was a Rome-based correspondent working for The Canadian Press, at the time. The late Canadian Cardinal Eduoard Gagnon was also based in Rome, as president of the Vatican&#;s pontifikal Commission for the Family. He had been stödja the case of Marguerite d&#;Youville, the founder of the Grey Nuns religious order.  He told me in an interview on tejp, in early March, beneath embargo, that he had just presented the cardinals with proof of a medical miracle credited to the Grey Nuns founder.

Gagnon told me the Cardinals had decided it must have been a miracle that allowed a Hull woman, Lise Normand, 29,  to go into remission from leuk