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Marie of the Incarnation, OSU (28 October 1599 – 30 April 1672) was a French Ursuline nun. As part of a group of nuns sent to New France to establish the Ursuline Order, Marie was crucial in the spread of Catholicism in New France. She was a religious author and has been credited with founding the first girls' school in the New World.
" La bell'Acarie" ("the beautiful Acarie"), as she was known in Paris, [2] was born Barbara Avrillot in Paris.Her family belonged to the higher bourgeois society; her father, Nicholas Avrillot, was accountant general in the Chamber of Paris, and chancellor of Marguerite of Navarre, the first wife of Henry IV of France; while her mother, Marie Lhuillier, was a descendant of Etienne Marcel, the ...
Get shortened URL; Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Marie of the Incarnation may refer to: Marie of the Incarnation (Carmelite) (1566–1618)
Marie-Marguerite d'Youville (1701–1771), founder of the Grey Nuns. Mother Marie of the Incarnation, the foundress, practiced devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and had established it in the cloister years before the revelation to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690). The first celebration of the feast in the New World took place in ...
In 1639, Mother Marie of the Incarnation, two other Ursuline nuns, three Augustinian sisters and a Jesuit priest left France for a mission in New France in what is now the Province of Quebec, Canada. When they arrived in the summer of 1639, they studied the languages of the native peoples and then began to educate the native children. [6]
Marie-Catherine Boullé (rel. name: Marie Claire of Saint Magdalen) (1739–1794), Professed Religious of the Carmelite Nuns of the Ancient Observance; Martyr in odium fidei (France) Thoma Malpan Palackal (c. 1780–1841), Priest and Cofounder of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (India)
The Mother Eagle (French: Le Sang du pélican, lit."The Blood of the Pelican") is a Canadian docudrama film, directed by Denis Boivin and released in 2020. [1] The film blends historical reenactments of the life of Marie of the Incarnation (Karen Elkin), an Ursuline nun in New France who was instrumental in the founding of the historically significant Ursuline monastery in Montreal, with a ...
Born Marguerite Acarie, her father, Pierre Acarie, was one of the staunchest members of the Catholic League, which, after the death of King Henry III of France, opposed the succession of the Huguenot prince, Henry of Navarre, to the French throne.