Marie of the Incarnation (Ursuline)

Marie de l' Incarnation ( born February 26, 1599 at Pan Tours, France, † April 30, 1672 in Quebec / Canada) was a French nun, mystic and missionary in Canada and was founded in 1980 beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II called for the celebration of the beatification, the mother of the Catholic Church in Canada.

Life

Marie Guyart, so her secular name, came after she is widowed after three years, unhappily married, on 25 January 1631, the monastery of the Order of Ursulines at Tours one. There they laid in 1633 from the religious vows. On 4 May 1639, traveled to New France, as did the French colonies in Canada were called to found a branch of the Ursulines. In the spring of 1641 the first convent of the Ursulines was founded, whose matron she became. A year later she was able to found another monastery. With great enthusiasm she devoted herself to the mission among the Iroquois, particularly the education of children. She wrote to promote the Christianization of catechisms in the language of the Hurons, the Iroquois and the Algonquian, which was mentioned in her beatification.

Marie de l' Incarnation is known in addition to their missionary activities mainly because of their mystical visions. At a young age she had mystical experiences with the Holy Trinity and the heart of Jesus. The theologian Henri Bremond called it the greatest mystic of France.

With her husband Claude Martin, they had a son, Claude, who later became Benedictine in the Congregation of Maurists and religious priests was. This was their personal records first published in book form.

Marie Guyart was beatified on 22 June 1980 by Pope John Paul II, was born on the same day as François de Montmorency -Laval, who arrived 20 years after her in Canada and the first bishop of Quebec. Your Memorial Day in the liturgy is April 30.

The classic French pulpit orators, Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Marie de l' Incarnation called in allusion to Teresa of Avila, which also deep mysticism and high activity combined with each other, in his " États d' Oraison " la sainte Thérèse du nouveau monde ( the St Theresa of the New World ).

At Laval University in Quebec has been around since 1993, an interdisciplinary scientific study center for the study of their works, particularly the exchange of letters, their spiritual psychology and their time.

Works

• Testimony I am to you ( autobiography )
• The Life Report 1654
• Letters