Marie de lincarnation biography definition
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Marie de l’Incarnation
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.
Marie de lincarnation biography definition
Hundreds of her French letters were published in Europe during her life and for centuries later.
Brief Biography
She was born Marie Guyart in Tours, France, the fourth child of a family of eight children.
She was attracted to liturgy and prayer and recounted that she had a mystical experience when she was seven. At age fourteen she asked her parents to let her join the Benedictine nuns of Beaumont Abbey but they did not allow her to do so.
Instead they had her marry Claude Martin, a master silk worker, when she was eighteen. Two years later they had a son whom they names Claude, but the husband died soon after leaving Marie a widow. She lived with her parents