Overview

MARIE-ANNE-MARCELLE, was a professed religious of the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal, foundress of the Institute of the Sisters of Charity of Quebec, and superior of that community from 1849 to 1866. Today, the community of the Sisters of Charity of Quebec numbers almost 1,800 from around the world in: United States, Japan, Paraguay, Argentina, the Congo, and above all in the province of Quebec which gave it its corner-stone. She died at dawn on Easter Sunday, 9 April 1871.

Source

• Dictionary of Canadian Biography

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