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1599–1672 France

Marie of the Incarnation (née Marie Guyart; 28 October 1599 – 30 April 1672) was a French Ursuline nun, missionary, mystic, educator, and writer who founded the Ursuline monastery of Quebec and helped establish the first institution devoted to the education of girls in North America. One of the major mystical writers of seventeenth-century French Catholicism, she produced a large body of autobiographical, spiritual, and epistolary writings and also composed catechetical and linguistic works in several Indigenous languages of New France.

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(About François de Montmorency-Laval) He is a man of great merit and distinguished virtue; it is not men who have chosen him; I will say in all truth that he lives as a saint and as an apostle.

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