Born on July 11, 1833 in Saint-Hyacinthe (Lower Canada) Aurélie attends school in her native village until she is twelve. She is extremely pious from an early age and passionately devoted to the precious blood of Christ. She enters a boarding-school run by the Congregation of Notre-Dame at Saint-Hyacinthe in 1845. During her studies there […]
Read moreBorn on June 4, 1866, in Dziersanow (Poland) from a poor, but very religious family, Antoine is a smart boy. He begins working when he is thirteen, to help his family. He becomes a blacksmith and, when he is sixteen years old, leaves for Hamburg (Germany) to find a job. It is rough here for […]
Read moreMarie de la Ferre was born in 1590, in Roiffé, a small village in France, where conflicts between Catholics and Protestants were very pronounced. Her mother passes on to Marie her devotion to the Virgin Mary and her love and respect for the Eucharist. Towards 1601, when her mother dies, Marie goes to live with […]
Read moreLouise Bray was a woman of action who knew what it meant to be human, to love those living in poverty and to face challenges with courage and boldness. Her time in leadership, both as a provincial in Cape Breton, NS and as Congregational Leader for the Sisters of Charity of Halifax, was marked by […]
Read moreBorn on August 24, 1860, in Saint-Jerome (Quebec), very young Eugene desires to become a saint. He is at the seminary when he hears about the Société du Très-Saint-Sacrement. His spiritual director encourages him to follow his desire: Eugene wishes to become an adorer of the Blessed Sacrament. He therefore leaves the seminary to enter […]
Read moreFrédéric Janssoone was born on November 19, 1838, in the North of France. His mother was Flemish. His parents are devout and cultured people and give him a solid education. He loses his father on January 13, 1848, when he is only nine years old. Four years later Frédéric feels a call to priesthood and […]
Read moreBorn on May 25, 1887, in Gonneville-sur-Honfleur (Calvados, France), Pierre was a pure-blooded Normand, of a family of modest peasants. He loses his father when he is seven and his mother when he is twelve. Orphaned of father and mother, he is taken up by his uncles and attends the local school in Honfleur. He […]
Read moreMary Alice Danaher was born in Montreal on December 20, 1928, and baptized on the 30th. She loved her family and had a special relationship with her mother. She was taught by the CND Sisters and it was during her high school years that she decided to become a nun. “I have always wanted […]
Read moreBorn on July 19, 1916, in Rogersville (NB), Anne Marie Jeanne Chiasson begins attending school when she is five years old. In 1928, because of the Great Depression, she has to interrupt her grade school in order to help her mother at home. However she continues hoping to return to school and in 1935, together […]
Read moreSister Mary Alice Butts – affectionately known as Sister Peggy – was born on August 15, 1924 in Bridgeport, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. She discovered her religious vocation while she was a student of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame at Mount St. Bernard College in Antigonish. After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at St. Francis […]
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