Religious of the day

Julienne Dallaire was born in Quebec City on May 23, 1911. Since her first communion, she feels a special attraction for the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. She […]

Alfred Bessette was born on August 9, 1845 at Mont-Saint-Grégoire (Quebec). He was the ninth of 13 children. He was so frail when he was born that he was baptized […]

Mariette Payment was born in Montreal on January 11, 1927. When asked to speak about her childhood, she once said: “I grew up in a home filled with love, music […]

Born in Troyes, Champagne (France) on April 17, 1620, the sixth of twelve children, Marguerite Bourgeoys grows up in a Christian, middle class family. She is 19 years old when […]

Born at Islet-sur-Mer, Quebec, on June 28, 1926, from a cultured and Christian family, Sister Marguerite Jean feels attracted to something more than what her environment proposes her. She therefore […]

Sister Delphine (Marie-Antoinette) Fontbonne was the first superior and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in the United States and Canada. Born December 24, 1813 in […]

Born in Verdun on October 2, 1927, Jean-Baptiste does his classical studies at the Collège Bourget of Rigaud, from 1942 to 1949. He then enters the noviciate and scholasticate of […]

Born in 1880 in Chambéry (France) in a well-to-do family, Claire had a happy childhood. As a boarder with the Ladies of the Sacred Heart, she is fascinated by a […]

Born on April 28, 1869, John Eckert begins his schooling in the neighboring school. When he is ready to go to high school, he expresses a desire to become a […]

William was born on May 16, 1905, in Dover, N.H. (U.S.A.), to French-Canadian parents who had immigrated from Canada to find work in the city’s cotton mills. In 1916, his […]