Blessed Marie Leonie Paradis
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- Also known as
- Alodie-Virginie Paradis
- Memorial
- 4 May
- Profile
- Born to a poor but pious family.
Educated by the Sisters of Notre Dame.
Joined the Marianite Sisters of the Congregation of the Holy Cross on 21 February 1854, taking her final vows in 1857.
Taught in Montreal, New York, and Indiana.
With 14 of her sisters, she founded the Poor Sisters of the Holy Family, devoted to assisting priests and seminarians, at Memramcook, Nebraska in 1877.
- Born
- 12 May 1840 in L'Acadie, Quebec, Canada as Alodie-Virginie Paradis
- Died
- 3 May 1912 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
- Beatified
- 11 September 1984 by Pope John Paul II at Montreal, Canada
- Canonized
- pending
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