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On December 9 and 13, 1771, she had attacks of paralysis and she died on December 23. She was canonized on December 9, 1990 by Pope (now Saint) John Paul II. Her Spirituality. With the Ursulines, Marguerite grew in the practice of the apostolic prayer of Marie of the Incarnation who had founded the girls’ school in Quebec City a century earlier.
Elle a beaucoup aimé : vie de sainte Marguerite d'Youville, fondatrice des Soeurs de la Charité, Soeurs grises, 1701-1771 : Mitchell, E. (Estelle), 1916- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Feastday: October 16. Patron: of widows, difficult marriages, death of young children. Birth: October 15, 1701. Death: December 23, 1771. Beatified: 1959 by Pope John XXIII. Canonized: December 9, 1990, Vatican Basilica, by Pope John Paul II. Author and Publisher - Catholic Online. Printable Catholic Saints PDFs. Shop St. Marguerite d'Youville.
MARGUERITE d'YOUVILLE, the first native Canadian to be elevated to sainthood, was born October 15, 1701 at Varennes, Quebec. She was the eldest of six children born to Christophe Dufrost de Lajemmerais and Marie-Renée Gaultier.
Saint Marguerite d’Youville. Feast: October 16. Patron: widows, difficult marriages, death of young children. Died: 1771. We learn compassion from allowing our lives to be influenced by compassionate people, by seeing life from their perspectives, and by reconsidering our own values.
Marguerite d’Youville and her sisters devoted themselves day and night at the bedside of those in their care. Without distinction of nationality, race or creed, Marguerite’s faith and charity inspired her to provide for the needs of all with equal sensitivity.
Saint Marguerite d’Youville, SGM (1701–1771) Born in Varennes (Quebec) on October 15, 1701, from an aristocratic family of New France, Marguerite is sixteen years old when her father dies. After spending two years in the boarding school of the Ursulines in Quebec City, she returns to Varennes to help her mother with the
