Marie guyart autobiography sample
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GUYART, MARIE, named de l’Incarnation (Martin), Ursuline nun, foundress of the Ursuline order in New France; baptized 29 Oct. at Tours (France); d. 30 April at Quebec.
A daughter of Florent Guyart, master baker, and of Jeanne Michelet, Marie was baptized in the former church of Saint-Saturnin. Her mother was descended from the Babou de La Bourdaisières, an old and noble family that had distinguished itself in the service of church and state. But Jeanne Michelet had married a simple and honest workingman who was well established and honoured in his guild. The Guyarts gave their seven children, three boys and four girls, a deeply Christian upbringing and a sound education. Marie went to school at an early age. Her earliest recollections are of trundling a hoop in a playground with a companion. One night she saw the Lord in a dream. Bending down to her, he asked her: “Do you want to be mine?” “Yes,” she replied. A “yes” which was to make of her ex
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Peterborough, Canada
Marie Guyart was born in Tours, France on October 28, Although she desired to enter religious life, her parents gave her in marriage to Claude Martin in She became a mother in April, , and lost her husband in the same year, after only two years of marriage. She then dedicated herself to working to pay off her husband’s debts and to caring for Simon, their young son.
In , after entrusting her son as a young adolescent to the care of his aunt, she entered the community of the Ursulines de Tours because she felt that God had a new plan for her. Within religious life, she experienced another call which was accompanied by mystical visions of an unknown wilderness which she discerned later to be the forests of New France, later known as Canada.
On August 1, , she arrived in New France to begin the mission of the Ursulines. The goal of this mission in New France was to evangelize and educate the young French and Amerindian children. Marie of the Incarnation no
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Guyart, Marie
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France
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Quebec, France
French missionary
French missionary Marie Guyart was a pioneering educator in seventeenth-century Canada. Going against the wishes of her family, Guyart achieved her lifelong dream of becoming a nunna (member of a långnovell Catholic beställning for women). In she entered the Ursuline convent (a house where nuns live) in Tours, France, where she took the religious name Marie dem l'Incarnation and began her spiritual training. Eight years later Guyart went to Canada and established a convent in New France (now Quebec). Her school for daughters of settlers and Native Americans thrived in spite of many hardships. A tireless missionär, Guyart also wrote instructional materials in Algonquian and Iroquoian. Her autobiography, titled The Life of the Venerable Mother Marie dem l'Incarnation published in , is an important document about the lives of Native American and europeisk women in early Canada.
Pursues dream of becoming nun
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