Religious of the day

Élodie Paradis was born on May 12, 1840 in Acadie, Lower Canada, the only daughter of a family of six children. When she is nine her mother sends her to […]

Born in France from a noble background in 1623, François de Laval was trained and educated by the Jesuits. During those formative years he learned about the order’s missionaries in […]

Catherine of Saint-Augustin was born on May 3, 1632, in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Normandy (France). She is raised by her maternal grandparents who are used to offer hospitality to the poor and […]

Born on July 2, 1876, in Kaysersberg (Upper Rhin), the youngest of four children of a Catholic family of modest means, Joseph Staub spends his childhood in Alsace-Lorraine, which was […]

Louis-Zéphirin Moreau was born premature on April 1, 1824, in Bécancour (Lower Canada). Because of his poor health, his parents felt he was unsuited for farm work and, on the […]

Mary Ellen Tucker, in religion Sister Mary Providence, was born in County Sligo, Ireland, on October 2, 1836. She enjoyed a privileged upbringing and was educated by the Sisters of […]

  Born on May 31, 1909, Mother Anselme takes her vows with the Sœurs de Charité de Sainte-Marie in 1928. She teaches for six years in schools run by the […]

Born in Sainte-Marie de Beauce, Quebec, the fourth of a family of ten children, Gabrielle joins the Ursuline Sisters in 1945, at the age of twenty-one. She is assigned to […]

Vital Grandin was born on February 8, 1829, in Saint-Pierre-la-Cour, France. His parents were hotel-keepers and farmers. From an early age he feels a religious vocation and in 1846 enters […]

Born on November 26, 1923 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Alice Gallagher is introduce to the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul through her older sister Marguerite who entered the […]