Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie
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Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie
Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie (1603 – 18 November 1671) was a French woman who started the Order of Ursulines of Quebec.
Madame Chauvigny was born at Alençon. She arrived in New France with a number of Ursulines including a future nun, Charlotte Barré (Mother Saint-Ignace) and Marie de l'Incarnation, who was to be the religious founder of the Order of Ursulines. (The order later was called the Ursulines of Quebec). Also part of the passenger list on that voyage was Father Barthélemy Vimont who was the third superior of the Jesuit Mission in Canada.
External links
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- Biography at the Canadian Encyclopedia
"Madeleine de La Peltrie". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
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