Saturday, November 18, 2017

Sister of the Sacred Heart brought girls education to places like St Louis and New Orleans

St. Rose Philippine Duchesne

Image of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne

Facts

Feastday: November 18
Death: 1852
Canonized By: Pope John Paul II


St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, Virgin (Feast day - November 18) Born in Grenoble, France, in 1769, Rose joined the Society of the Sacred Heart. In 1818, when she was forty-nine years old, Rose was sent to the United States. She founded a boarding school for daughters of pioneers near St. Louis and opened the first free school west of the Missouri. At the age of seventy-one, she began a school for Indians, who soon came to call her "the woman who is always praying". Her biographers have also stressed her courage in frontier conditions, her singlemindedness in pursuing her dream of serving Native Americans, and her self-acceptance. This holy servant of God was beatified by Pope Pius XII in 1940 and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1988.

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