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Source: Lettres de course of action Reverende Unmixed Marie side by side l’Incarnation, Abbe Richaudeau, ed.,(Paris: Vve H. Casterman, 1876), 89-92. [Thomas Peace, trans.]
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Saint of the Day: St. Marie of the Incarnation Guyart
Ursuline Sister and Educator (1599-1672)
Her life
+ Marie Guyart as born in Tours, France, and entered the Ursuline order following her husband’s death.
+ Known in religious life as “Sister Marie of the Incarnation,” she sailed to Canada in 1639 and established the first school for women in North America.
+ In 1642, she established the first community of Ursuline sisters in the New World. The first students were Native Americans and Marie mastered the Algonquin and Iroquois languages to effectively provide her students with a catechism and books on Church history. She would later compose a dictionary of both languages.
+ A devout and gifted woman, she guided the Ursulines through the trials of frontier life, combining a contemplative spirit with highly developed administrative skills.
+ Saint Marie of the Incarnation died on April 30, 1672, and was canonized in 2014.
For prayer and reflection
“The Church’s mission of evangelization is essentially a proclamation of God’s love, mercy and forgiveness, revealed to us in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Missionaries have served the Church’s mission by breaking the bread of God’s word for the poor and those far off, and by bringing to all the
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St Marie Guyart of the Incarnation
To honour the 350th anniversary of St Marie Guyart of the Incarnation’s death, Ursuline - a wide variety of activities is taking place from April 30, 2022, to April 30, 2023 - particularly in Québec, Canada.
St Marie Guyart of the Incarnation (1599-1672) - wife, mother, then widow, she proved to be an efficient businessperson before entering the Ursulines in Tours, France, in 1631.
Arriving in Quebec City on August 1, 1639, with two nuns and Ms de La Peltrie, Marie of the Incarnation conceived a plan for her order’s first monastery in America. She supervised its construction in Upper Town.
A woman of many talents - outstanding teacher, excellent embroiderer, prolific letter writer and remarkable author - she also became a linguist, composing dictionaries in various Indigenous languages.
She died on April 30, 1672, and was interred in the Ursuline Monastery in Quebec City. The holiness of her life was attested to by the Church, which beatified her in 1980 and canonized her in 2014. She was also named a historic figure by the Quebec government in 2017.
From the website of the Cultural Centre of the Ursuline Monastery in Quebec
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