Mère Marie of the Ursulines: A Study in Adventure

The early history of Quebec, “the rocky perch of France and of the Faith” in the New World, is incomplete without the story of Mère Marie. She received permission to join the Jesuit mission in Quebec. There she founded, in 1639, the first convent school in North America, where she lived for thirty-three years, moving heroically but always calmly through the turbulent, harsh environment that was New France.