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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:55:40 EDT
Oct. 28,1599
(http://www1.sympatico.ca/news/otd/images/otd.98.10.28.b.lg.gif) Marie de
l'Incarnation 1599-1672
founder of the Ursuline Order of Canada, was born Marie Guyart on this day
at Tours, France in 1599; died in Quebec City Apr 30, 1672. Guyart was moved
to go to Canada by reading the Jesuit Relations. She arrived in Quebec Aug 1,
1639 with Mme. de La Peltrie and two Ursulines, and founded a convent in the
lower town. In 1642 they moved into a stone building in the upper town, and
started educating French and Indian girls. Guyart wrote a catechism in the
Iroquois tongue, and also compiled Huron and Algonkian dictionaries.
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