Marie-Madeline de Chauvigny de la Peltrie

Marie-Madeline de Chauvigny de la Peltrie

Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie (1603 – 18 November 1671) was a lay person who started the Order of Ursulines of Quebec.

Madame Chauvigny arrived in New France with a number of Ursulines including a future nun, Charlotte Barré (Mother Saint-Ignace) and Marie de l'Incarnation, who was to be the religious founder of the Order of Ursulines. (The order later was called the Ursulines of Quebec). Also part of the passenger list on that voyage was Father Barthélemy Vimont who was the third superior of the Jesuit Mission in Canada.

External links

* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=123 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004400 Biography at the "Canadian Encyclopedia"]
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