Fanny Allen
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Frances Margaret "Fanny" Allen, RHSJ was the first New England woman to become a Catholic nun. The daughter of Revolutionary War officer Ethan Allen, she converted to Catholicism and entered the Montr
A sepia print by John Drake of the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal in 1826. Allen would make her profession as a nun here on May 18, 1811.
The Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph are a Catholic religious congregation founded in 1636 at La Flèche, France, by the Venerable Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière and the Venerable Marie de la
Fanny Allen
…to become a Catholic nun. The daughter of Revolutionary War officer Ethan Allen, she converted to Catholicism and entered the Montreal convent of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph in 1811. Born on November 13, 1784, Frances Margaret Allen was the eldest child of the American patriot Ethan Allen and his second wife, Frances Montresor…
Bust of Le Royer