When was jeanne mance born

This event, known as the Great Recruitment, is believed to have saved the colony. For her part, Jeanne Mance returns to France in , after a fall on the ice that causes her to lose the use of her right arm.

Your browser does not support the technology used on our site. Please download Chrome or Firefox for optimal experience. She prays and talks about this with her spiritual director and finally decides to sail for America. She spends some time in Paris where she makes numerous acquaintances that prepare her departure.

Among others, she is introduced to Mme de Bullion who asks Jeanne to take charge of a hospital in Ville Marie that she proposed to found with what would be necessary for its maintenance. Jeanne accepts and sets off for La Rochelle. Very devout, and with the ability to be unmindful of herself, she became, together with her sister, the support of her father and looked after the education of her young brothers and sisters.

Hospitals were founded at Langres. Better still, he established a society of pious ladies directed towards charitable activities of an external and social nature. It was probably in this type of work that Jeanne Mance first served as a nurse. By it she no doubt learned to give emergency care to the wounded and the sick. How else can we explain her deftness at Ville-Marie, at the bedside of the horribly mutilated victims of the Iroquois? As her brothers and sisters grew up, she had more and more time to attend to charitable works, and her father was no longer there to require her care.

He had died about Jeanne had a high regard for this cousin. She willingly followed his advice, although he was about her own age he was born on 18 Aug. Jeanne eagerly went to visit him.

The young man spoke to her of New France. He could barely contain his emotion, for his younger brother Jean [ see Dolebeau ], a religious of the Society of Jesus, had just set sail for the missions in the colony.

Nicolas also informed Jeanne that not only were courageous men of God hastening to those regions, but that since the summer of society women and nuns were landing there too, testifying to the same surge of faith and the same dauntlessness as their missionary companions. A few days passed. Jeanne meditated and prayed. She decided to consult her director about her intention to sail for America. Whitsuntide was approaching. Her director, who is still unknown, urged her to submit all her aspirations to the scrutiny of the Holy Spirit.

Finally the priest allowed her to sail for Canada. It was on the last day of May that Jeanne Mance left Langres. Encouraged by the warmth of feeling shown to her, Jeanne abandoned her reserve. She spoke of her great missionary aspirations. She also zealously and punctiliously carried out the programme outlined for her by her director at Langres. She first presented herself at the Jesuit convent in Pot-de-Fer street now Bonaparte.

She saw Father Charles Lalemant, the procurator of the Canadian missions, who immediately took an interest in her plans. Unfortunately, for several months, it was impossible for Father Saint-Jure to receive her. In the meantime Jeanne immersed herself in the active life of charity led by her cousin.

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