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- She maintained an ongoing correspondence with her relatives, friends and benefactors in France. Nearly 300 letters have been conserved; they are of great historical and spiritual interest.
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Her most significant writings, however, were the 8,000–20,000 letters she wrote to various acquaintances, the majority of which went to her son Claude. Despite being personal correspondence, some of her letters were circulated throughout France and appeared in The Jesuit Relation in love while she was still alive. [ 28 ]
Nearly 300 letters have been conserved; they are of great historical and spiritual interest. Marie of the Incarnation died in Quebec on April 30, 1672. She was beatified by Pope (now Saint) John Paul II on June 22, 1980 and canonized by Pope Francis on April 3, 2014.
- Spiritual Calling in Childhood
- Wife, Mother and Businesswoman
- Entry Into The Ursulines
- Missionary in New France
- Writer
- Legacy and Canonization
The daughter of master baker Florent Guyart and Jeanne Michelet, Marie Guyart received a profoundly Catholic education and sound instruction. In the family bakery, she learned the basics of managing a business. From childhood, Marie showed signs of an unusual spiritual life, marked by mystical visions of Jesus. She said that at age 7, she had recei...
At age 14, Marie expressed her wish to enter the convent of the Benedictine Nuns. But her parents encouraged her to marry instead, and she was wed to Claude Martin, a master silk worker. The marriage was difficult: for one thing, Marie’s mother-in-law was jealous of her; for another, despite the devotion that Marie showed toward her husband, her sp...
In 1631, despite the considerable pain that it caused her to leave her 11-year-old son behind with her sister, Marie Guyart entered the cloister of the Ursulines in Tours and took the name of Marie de l’Incarnation. Total separation from her family and the outside world was one of the conditions for entering the order—in other words, she had had to...
Along with two other Ursuline nuns and Mme de la Peltrie, the patron of the Ursuline order in New France, Marie de l’Incarnation landed in Quebec Cityon 1 August 1639. There she founded a convent and the first school for girls, in the Lower Town. In 1642, the Ursulines moved into a new stone monastery in the Upper Town. There Marie de l’Incarnation...
Marie de l’Incarnation’s written works constitute one of the largest collections of personal documents from the early years of French colonization. Over 277 of her handwritten letters have been preserved to the present day, including 30 years of correspondence with her son Claude, who became a Benedictine monk. The main subject of these writings is...
Marie de l’Incarnation died in Quebec City at the age of 72. After her death, the Ursulines went on with her work in Trois-Rivières, where they founded a monastery in 1697. They even ventured as far as Lousiana, where they founded a school for girls in New Orleans in 1727. Their convent, rebuilt in 1752, is one of the rare buildings of the French R...
Despite her many responsibilities, Marie was a prolific writer. She wrote hundreds of letters about her religious studies, keeping up a vibrant correspondence with Claude and others in France. Marie learned Algonquin and Iroquois, and published dictionaries for both languages.
On 22 February 1639, Marie de 1'Incarnation, accompanied by a young sister of 22 years, Marie de Saint-Joseph, left her monastery for ever. She had no inkling of the shock that awaited her at Orleans: Claude, warned by aunt Buisson, stopped his mother and tried to prevent her from leaving.
Marie de l’Incarnation 1599-1672 was an Ursuline nun and one of the first women to do missionary work in New France. She wrote extensively about pioneer life in what later became Quebec, Canada. She founded the first school and produced the first examples of life-writing by a woman in North America.
GUYART, MARIE, named de l’Incarnation (Martin), Ursuline nun, foundress of the Ursuline order in New France; baptized 29 Oct. 1599 at Tours (France); d. 30 April 1672 at Quebec. A daughter of Florent Guyart, master baker, and of Jeanne Michelet, Marie was baptized in the former church of Saint-Saturnin.
