Marie de l'Incarnation
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Marie de l'Incarnation 🇫🇷

Marie Guyart (Known as "Theresa of New France")
Ursuline Nun, Mystic, Linguist, Founder of the Ursulines of Quebec
Born Oct 28, 1599 🇫🇷 Tours, France
Passed Away Apr 30, 1672 Quebec City, Canada
Lifespan 72 years old
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"My heart was in Canada before my body ever crossed the great ocean."

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Pioneering Ursuline mystic and educator who arrived in Quebec in 1639, founded North America's first convent school for girls, and authored pioneering dictionaries in Huron, Algonquin, and Iroquois.

Biographical Record

Marie Guyart was a widowed businesswoman who entered the Ursuline order in Tours following profound mystical visions. Sailing to New France in 1639, she founded the Ursuline Convent of Quebec, dedicating her life to educating French and Indigenous girls together.

A brilliant linguist, she mastered Wendat, Algonquin, and Mohawk, compiling monumental dictionaries and catechisms. Her vast epistolary output of over 13,000 letters provides historians with an incomparable firsthand account of life, spirituality, and politics in 17th-century New France.

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Final Resting Place

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Ursuline Monastery of Quebec Crypt
Quebec City, Canada
GPS: 46.8122, -71.2081
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