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consecrate her life to the Lord. Several experiences of religious life having failed, Marie devoted herself to her aunt’s service, as well as those wounded by life. The people, witnesses of her charity, called her “The Holy Woman”. After the death of her aunt, De la Ferre visited the sick poor in the small Maison Dieu in La Flèche, where she met M. le Royer.
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The congregation spread to other towns, and other houses opened orphanages and boarding schools. In 1819, a community of
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In May 1636, Marie de la Ferre and Anne
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Jérôme le Royer was born in La Flèche, France, on March 18, 1597. He pursued his studies at the Jesuit
College there, and when his father died in 1619, Jérôme succeeded him as tax collector. He also inherited the small estate “La Dauversière”, whence comes the title attached to his name. He married
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In 1953, the
American and Canadian communities became one congregation; the French congregations then joined in 1965. The Motherhouse is located in Montreal. In 2017, the Hospitallers sold the monastery at the Hôtel-Dieu to the City of Montreal and subsequently relocated. In the United States, the
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from the United States' South were not being adequately served by other community institutions. For instance, black children were denied entry to white schools. At that time, they were fleeing oppressive conditions in the South, where whites had regained control of state legislatures and in many
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Marie de la Ferre was born around 1589 in the small village of Roiffé. Around 1601, her mother died. When her father remarried, the girl went to live with her aunt, Catherine de
Goubitz, at her manor in Ruigné, near La Flèche. Her aunt wanted her to make a brilliant match; but Marie decided to
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September 1845, the RHSJ order established the
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broke out in the town of
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out of the South in the first half of the 20th century, by which some six million blacks moved to the North, Midwest, and West Coast cities. The RHSJ founded a hospital for
Windsor, and a school for black children.
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Ferre and her eleven companions made simple vows for one year in the
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areas used intimidation and force to keep blacks away from the polls. The blacks who moved to Canada can be considered precursors of the
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