Bourgeoys, Marguerite (known as du Saint-Sacrement)

Bourgeoys, Marguerite (known as du Saint-Sacrement)

1620 – 1653 Troyes, France – was attending The The Congrégation de Notre-Dame and was part of a non-cloistered group of women who met there (at age 33) 1653-1658 girls’ school in Montreal. She found few children there because of the high rate of infant mortality but persisted and founded the school. 1658 – returned to France to bring back staff for the school. 1670 – petitioned the king, after travelling to Paris to support her institution and grant her letters of patent. in 1671 he did so. Returned to New France with 3 neices. 1676 – opened a boarding school in Ville Marie at the request of local families 1678 – establishes a mission in the village of Montagne, a first nations community 1680 – returned to France 1692- A school for girls from poorer families is opened in Quebec. 1693 – resigns from her post as head of the Montreal house, (mother superior). 1698 began a book after becoming cloistered earlier that same year

Person

New France

Simpson, Patricia. Marguerite Bourgeoys and Montreal, 1640-1665. Montréal, Qué: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997.

https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bourgeoys_marguerite_1E.html

1620

Troyes, France

1700

Montréal, Québec, Canada

teacher; author; religious sister

French

In her hometown of Troyes, France she worked with a convent as a non-cloistered member and came to what is now Canada in 1653.
She opened a boarding girls’ school in Montreal in 1658, and later she opened a school for Indigenous children in La Montagne

On the 2nd of July 1659 she founded the Congrégation de Notre-Dame de Montréal. This was originally uncloistered and followed the Catholic faith.

In the 1660s she opened a domestic arts school and primary school in Quebec.

While she was alive she was regarded as a saint, however, she was not Canonized until 1982.

https://cnd-m.org/en/marguerite-bourgeoys/

Conflict and Change in Early Canadian History (Carleton HIST 1301)

Fiona Johnstone