Blessed Marie Rose Durocher
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- Also known as
- Eulalie Durocher
- Memorial
- 6 October
- Profile
- Tenth of eleven children.
Drawn to the religious life, but turned away due to frail health.
Became housekeeper to her brother Theophile, a priest at Beloeil.
Because newly independent Canada was still a wild, untamed place, its bishop (the whole country was a single diocese) had trouble getting European religious to emigrate, so he founded new communities.
Marie Rose helped found the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary who serve as teachers.
- Born
- 6 October 1811 at Saint Antoine-sur-Richelieu (near Montreal), Canada as Eulalie Durocher
- Died
- 6 October 1849 of natural causes
- Beatified
- 23 May 1982 by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized
- pending
- Patronage
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against bodily ills
against loss of parents
against sickness
sick people
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia: Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
Google Directory
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Society
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- Readings
- Do not imitate those persons who, after having spent a few months as a postulant or novice in a community, dress differently, even ludicrously.
You are returning to the secular state.
My advice is, follow the styles of the day, but from afar, as it were.
- Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher, giving advice to a novice leaving the religious life