![]() ![]() By then she had decided on the great project of converting souls. ![]() In 1631 she entered Tours' Ursuline convent, leaving her son in her sister's care, and pronounced her vows after two years of probation as a novice. Raised her only son Claude by herself while running her brother-in-law's shipping business for more than six years until she decided to retire from society. Married to the silk manufacturer Claude Martin in 1617, but widowed two years later, she ![]() Nothing is known of her education or how she developed such a talent as a writer. Marie Guyart was born in Tours ( France) to parents who operated a bakery. ![]() In New France, she was a star it was almost compulsory for every newcomer to the colony to visit her, for she could provide information not only on the natives' languages and customs, but also on the settlers' living conditions. As the first female missionary outside Europe, she exemplified female religious patronage and activism, which led to the development of social welfare in early modern Catholic Europe and its colonies. Her extensive correspondence reveals a profound spirituality combined with a remarkable sense of organization and outstanding linguistic skills. Marie Guyart of the Incarnation was a leading figure of the Catholic mission to the Amerindians of New France she was also a theologian (she was called "the Saint Teresa of the New World"), a spiritual adviser, mystic, businesswoman, and founder of the Ursuline convent in Quebec ( Canada). MARIE DE L'INCARNATION (1599 –1672), French mystic and missionary. ![]()
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