Marguerite bourgeoys et jeanne mance biography
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Jeanne Mance, co-founder of Montréal
The importance of Jeanne Mance’s contribution to the founding of Montréal was long underestimated. Despite her contemporaries recognizing her essential role in the founding of Montréal, it was not until May 17, 2012, after the city undertook steps to determine the extent of her contribution, that Jeanne Mance is proclaimed founder of Montréal along with Sieur de Maisonneuve.
Jeanne Mance succeeded in getting the financial and moral support of influential French representatives and led a group of missionaries, of which she was part, to found Montréal.
After arriving in 1642, she ensures stewardship of the colony, manages provisioning and runs the hospital she has founded as well as taking initiatives that will save the colony on several occasions.
Born in Langres, France, in 1606, Jeanne Mance begins early in her life to look for spiritual fulfilment. She pursues an answer when she responds to a call to become a missionary in the New
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Jan. 12, St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, co-foundress of Montreal
Today is the feast of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, 1620-1700, observed by Catholics and by the Anglican Church of Canada.
"She is rightly considered co-foundress of Montreal, with the nurse, Jeanne Mance, and the master designer, Monsieur de Maisonneuve." She "initiated a school system and a network of social services which gradually extended through the whole country, and which led people to refer to Marguerite as 'Mother of the Colony.'"
-- from the Vatican biography of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys
Marguerite Bourgeoys, who founded the Congrégation de Notre-Dame, lived to be eighty, and she crossed the Atlantic seven times.
Marguerite Bourgeoys and Montreal, 1640-1665, was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 1997. The author, Sr. Patricia Simpson, CND, "goes behind the mist of myth and hagiography surrounding Marguerite Bourgeoys to reveal her true character. . . . placing her life within the larger histo
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Marguerite Bourgeoys: a Woman with a Heart of Gold
On Good Friday, April 17, 1620, the bells did not fingerprydnad in the Church of Saint-Jean-au-Marché to announce the baptism of a little girl born that day in Troyes, in the Province of Champagne[1]. This little girl was Marguerite Bourgeoys, the sixth of Abraham Bourgeoys (1579-1651) and Guillemette Garnier’s (1593-1638) twelve children.
Marguerite’s childhood and adolescence
We do not know very much about Marguerite Bourgeoys’s childhood. However, we know that her family lived across from town ingångsrum , and her father was a mästare candle-maker and coiner in the mint at Troyes[2]. We can learn more about her childhood through a short text written by Marguerite herself describing her younger years:
From early childhood, God had given me the inclination to gather little girls of my own age tillsammans to live and work together in some distant place to earn our living. inom had never known any community of women, but only a few women who l