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Holy founders

Marie de l’Incarnation

Marie de l’Incarnation arrived in Quebec in August 1st 1639 with two other Ursulines and Madame de la Peltrie, a rich widow who was the benefactress of the Ursulines. They intended to found a monastery and a school for Amerindian and French girls.

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Jesuits martyrs


Jean de Brébeuf (1593-1649), Gabriel Lalemant (1610-1649), Antoine Daniel (1601-1648), Charles Garnier (1606-1649), Noël Chabanel (1613-1649), Isaac Jogues (1607-1646), René Goupil (1608-1642), Jean de Lalande (d. 1646)

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Marie-Catherine de Saint-Augustin

Catherine Simon de Longpré was born in Normandy, May 3rd , 1632. At the tender age of twelve and a half she entered the Hotel Dieu of Bayeux, from where she sailed to Canada to share the exile and the hardships of those who preceded her there.

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Bp. François de Laval

Most of Quebec’s distinguished figures – Cartier, Champlain, Montcalm, etc. – have been honoured through its toponymic nomenclature. One man’s name, however, graces the greatest number of entities and indisputably outstrips them all: Bishop de Laval!

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