Marie Raizenne

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Marie Raizenne (July 14, 1735 – April 20, 1811) was a Roman Catholic nun in the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal. She took the name Sister Saint-Ignace and served as superior general.

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The Congrégation de Notre Dame is a religious community for women founded in 1658 in the colony of New France, now part of Canada. It was established by Marguerite Bourgeoys, who created a religious community for women that was not cloistered; the sisters were allowed to live and work outside the convent. The Congregation held an important role in the development of New France, as it supported women and girls in the colony and offered roles for them outside the home. It founded a boarding school for girls' education, watched over the filles du roi, women immigrants whose passage was paid by the Crown, which wished to encourage marriages and the development of families in the colony. Some filles de roi and sisters served as missionaries to the First Nations peoples. The community's motherhouse has been based in Montreal for more than 350 years. Marguerite Bourgeoys was canonized in 1982 by the Roman Catholic Church and is Canada's first woman saint.

The daughter of Josiah Rising, also known as Shoentakwanni and Ignace Raizenne, and Abigail Nims, also known as Towatogowash, she was born at the mission of Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes. Her parents had both been born in New England but were captured and brought to New France, where they were baptized as Catholics; her older sister had also become a nun and her brother became a priest. In 1761, she helped restore the Sainte-Famille mission on Île d’Orléans. She was sent to the Lower Town of Quebec City to take charge of the mission there in 1769. She was recalled to Montreal in 1775 as assistant to superior Véronique Brunet; in 1778, she became superior herself. In 1784, she became mistress of novices and, in 1790, was re-elected superior. She served again as mistress of novices from 1796 to 1802. At this point, she retired and died in Montreal nine years later.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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Her niece Marie-Clotilde Raizenne founded a new order, the Congregation de l’Enfant-Jésus.^[2]

Marie-Clotilde Raizenne was a Roman Catholic nun in the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal and an educator. She took the name Sister Marie de l’Incarnation and founded the Congregation de l’Enfant-Jésus.

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References

↑ Désilets, Andrée (1983). "Marie Raizenne". In Halpenny, Francess G. Dictionary of Canadian Biography . V (1801–1820) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
1 2 Gray, Colleen (2008). The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796. pp. 71–76. ISBN 0773574727.
↑ Faillon, Etienne-Michel (1853). Mémoires particuliers pour sevir à l'histoire de l'Eglise de l'Amerique du Nord (in French). pp. 442–50.

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[1] Désilets, Andrée (1983). "Marie Raizenne". In Halpenny, Francess G. Dictionary of Canadian Biography . V (1801–1820) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.

[gray-2] 1 2 Gray, Colleen (2008). The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796. pp. 71–76. ISBN 0773574727.

[3] Faillon, Etienne-Michel (1853). Mémoires particuliers pour sevir à l'histoire de l'Eglise de l'Amerique du Nord (in French). pp. 442–50.