Marie Guenet de Saint-Ignace explained

Marie Guenet de Saint-Ignace (1610-1646) was a French-Canadian abbess and hospital manager. Originally from Rouen, she was the founder and manager of the convent hospital Hôtel-Dieu de Québec in Quebec in 1639.^{[1] [2]} It was the oldest convent for women in Quebec, founded the same year as the Ursuline school convent by Marie de l'Incarnation - the two groups of nuns came to Canada in the same ship, which departed from Dieppe.

References

• Sainte-Jeanne-de-Chantal Martin, o.s.a., "GUENET, MARIE, dite de Saint-Ignace," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed June 13, 2016, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/guenet_marie_1E.html.

Notes and References

1. Book: Colonial saints: discovering the holy in the Americas, 1500 - 1800 . 2003 . Routledge . 978-0-415-93495-4 . Greer . Allan . New York, NY . Bilinkoff . Jodi.
2. Book: Herval, René . Dieppe . 1947-01-01 . FeniXX . 978-2-402-59171-3 . fr.