Saint marguerite bourgeoys biography for kids

BOURGEOYS, MARGUERITE, ditedu Saint-Sacrement, founder of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame de Montréal; b. 17 April 1620 at Troyes in Champagne (France); d. 12 Jan. 1700 at Montreal and was buried there the next day; beatified 12 Nov. 1950 and canonized 31 Oct. 1982.

Marguerite Bourgeoys was born in France in the century of the Thirty Years’ War and the Fronde, during the period of the mighty triumphs of organization achieved by Richelieu and Colbert, during the period of the great mystics of the French school: Jean-Jacques Olier, Pierre de Bérulle, Charles de Condren.

She was marked by her environment and by her time, and was destined to be both a great realist and a profound mystic, and also to assume the figure of a forerunner.

By her father, a master candle-maker and a coiner in the mint at Troyes, as well as by her mother Guillemette Garnier, Marguerite belonged to the 17th-century French bourgeoisie.

The detailed inventory of Mme Bourgeoys’s Saint Marguerite Bourgeous - Catholic Saint - Saint for a Minute PYGEM