Beatification one.Montreal--The foundress of the Sisters of St. Anne, Mother Marie-Anne, now also known as Mother Esther Blondin, 1809-1890, will be beatified be·at·i·fy tr.v. be·at·i·fied, be·at·i·fy·ing, be·at·i·fies 1. To make blessedly happy. 2. Roman Catholic Church on April 29, 2001. Her concern for the lack of education of children in rural Quebec led her to found the Congregation of Sisters of St. Anne with four companions in 1850. By 1854, however, she was forced to step down as superior in compliance with the wishes of an ambitious chaplain who had the ear of Bishop Ignace Bourget Ignace Bourget (30 October, 1799 – 8 June, 1885) was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic priest and bishop of the Diocese of Montreal, known for his sympathy for the rebels during the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, for his re-introduction of the Jesuit order to Canada in 1842, . Until her death in 1890, she lived a humble life in the convent, with members forbidden to mention her name as foundress, a ban which stuck till the 1920s. After she had been declared venerable in 1991, a miracle in the same year paved the way for her beatification beatification: see canonization. in 2001. Besides Quebec, the Sisters of St. Anne (SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives. ) are well-known in British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography . Beatification two A second forthcoming beatification in April is that of Mother Emilie Gamelin, also from Quebec. She is the foundress of the Sisters of Providence The Sisters of Providence are an order of Roman Catholic sisters founded in 1843 by Mother Emilie Gamelin. They are headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, and have missions in nations all over the world, including El Salvador, the Philippines, and the United States. which she founded after her husband and three children died within five years of her marriage in 1823. She sold her property and begged from door to door to open a refuge for elderly and disabled women. When she died of cholera in 1851, her last words were "humility, simplicity, charity, especially charity". Today there are 1,200 members of her congregation in Canada and eight other countries. They work with immigrants, women and children and others in need. |
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