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
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Jeanne Mance
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Jeanne Mance was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first
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…at Ville-Marie, now Montreal, for education and a hospital, where care would be given by sisters of the new order. He sponsored Paul de Chomedey and Jeanne Mance, a lay woman, to go to Ville-Marie with French colonists to evangelize the Natives and establish a hospital (Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal) to care for the…
Monument to Jeanne Mance, sculpted by Louis-Philippe Hebert, in front of the Hotel-Dieu de Montreal
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Jeanne Mance Monument