Marguerite bourgeois biography
Marguerite bourgeois biography
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Marguerite Bourgeoys was born in Troyes, Champagne, France, in 1620. Even as a young girl, she demonstrated an aptitude for “gathering together the girls” of her age and for group life and organization.
At twenty, she saw a statue of the Virgin that deeply “touched and changed” her. She enrolled in the “external” Congregation of Notre Dame in Troyes and pronounced a vow of chastity when she was 23. She wanted to try a new form of life to honour “the life in the world of the Holy Virgin”, in which “without a veil or a wimple, one would be a true religious.”
In 1652, Governor Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve was trying to find a teacher who could come to Ville-Marie (Montreal).
He and Marguerite met, and she offered her services. She set out on a ship in 1653, carrying only a small bag. She was 33.
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In the course of the voyage, she nursed people suffering from illness. For four years, she worked for the Governor. She also helped Jeanne Mance at Hôtel-Dieu Hospital; she gave up her matt