Born at St-Léon de Maskinongé, the oldest child of a family of thirteen children, Marie-Auréa joins the Ursuline Sisters of Trois-Rivières in 1929. She works as a teacher, school principal, responsible for boarders and for Catholic Action movements, local and provincial superior. In 1966, Mother Auréa is elected Superior General of the Canadian Union of […]
Read moreMarie-Aveline Bengle was born on October 15, 1861 in Saint-Paul d’Abbotsford into a family whose faith was solid and deep. From 1875 to 1879, she pursued her secondary studies at Mont Notre-Dame in Sherbrooke. In 1879, she began teaching at the local school house. Feeling very drawn to religious life, in 1880 she entered the […]
Read moreAwards from the Jeunesses musicales du Canada, Order of Canada, Order of Quebec, First National Prize Lescarbot, Calixa-Lavallée Prize, Tourism Award of Excellence for Quebec, Honorary Doctorate from the Universities of Laval and McGill… posthumously inducted into Montréal’s Opera Hall of Fame. Who is this man, this religious? Born on May 11, 1928, in Trois-Pistoles […]
Read moreBorn on February 7, 1937 in Liveri, a small town north of Naples (Italy), Carmelina is the eighth of eleven children of a farming family. She is a beautiful girl with a lovely and lively personality. At the age of 25, she experiences her first symptoms of illness but no definite diagnosis can be given. […]
Read moreLina was born on July 9, 1921 in St. Boniface, MN, in a bilingual family. Her parents ensured the children received a good education. Her father died when she was thirteen, leaving her mother alone to bring up the seven children. Lina became a Sister of Providence of Montreal in 1941. She had the gift […]
Read moreBorn on January 27, 1794, in Lavaltrie (Lower Canada), for fifty years Rosalie leads a life similar to that of most women of her time. On October 7, 1811, she marries Jean-Marie Jetté and has 11 children. She becomes a widow in 1832. Thirteen years after, freed of her family responsibilities, her life takes a […]
Read moreBorn on March 19, 1818 in the village of L’Assomption, just a few kilometers from Montreal, Elisabeth loses her father when she is only six. She suffers deeply and experiences the poverty and sacrifices which result from this loss. She has move to Montreal with her mother who courageously accepts to become a domestic to […]
Read moreBorn on October 12, 1903, in Saint-Hilaire-du-Bois (department of Maine-et-Loire), in France, Antoinette attends the grade school of her municipality, a school run by the secularized sisters of the Filles de la Charité du Sacré-Coeur de Jésus (Daughters of Charity of the Sacred Heart). In November 1923 she enters this community and takes the name […]
Read moreMarcelle Mallet was born on March 26, 1805, in Côte des Neiges (Montreal). She loses her father when she is only five years old. After her first communion, Marcelle has to leave her family home to go live with her aunt and uncle in Lachine where already her only brother, Narcisse, was. Her foster parents […]
Read moreA man of culture and learning, Fr. James Gray grew up in the environs of St. Peter’s abbey in Muenster, Sask. Born on Feb. 6, 1927, William James Gray received his primary education at Ives rural school, his high school at St. Peter’s College and his seminary training at St. John’s Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minn. […]
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