2017 - Montreal - Marguerite Bourgeoys Museum
The turreted building housed a school until 1968 and is now home to the Marguerite Bourgeoys Museum. The spire behind the turrets is Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours Chapel. The building to the left is Marche Bonsecours.
The Sisters of the Notre Dame Congregation decided to convert this old school building adjacent to the historic Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours Chapel into a Museum dedicated to the memory of Marguerite-Bourgeoys, the founder of the order.
Marguerite Bourgeoys was born in April 1620 in Troyes, in the Champagne region of France. A childhood spent among craftspeople - her father, a candle-maker, imbued her early on with a sense of practicality and ambition that would define her throughout her entire life.
After receiving an invitation from Mr. Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve in 1652, Marguerite Bourgeoys left France for Ville-Marie (Montreal), which, at the time, was a busy hive of missionary activity. Bourgeoys arrived in the fledgling colony in November of 1653.
Bourgeoys founded the city's first school in 1658 and, in the following year, she founded the Congregation of Notre-Dame, one of the first non-cloistered Catholic orders for women, whose mission was and still is education.
2017 - Montreal - Marguerite Bourgeoys Museum
The turreted building housed a school until 1968 and is now home to the Marguerite Bourgeoys Museum. The spire behind the turrets is Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours Chapel. The building to the left is Marche Bonsecours.
The Sisters of the Notre Dame Congregation decided to convert this old school building adjacent to the historic Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours Chapel into a Museum dedicated to the memory of Marguerite-Bourgeoys, the founder of the order.
Marguerite Bourgeoys was born in April 1620 in Troyes, in the Champagne region of France. A childhood spent among craftspeople - her father, a candle-maker, imbued her early on with a sense of practicality and ambition that would define her throughout her entire life.
After receiving an invitation from Mr. Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve in 1652, Marguerite Bourgeoys left France for Ville-Marie (Montreal), which, at the time, was a busy hive of missionary activity. Bourgeoys arrived in the fledgling colony in November of 1653.
Bourgeoys founded the city's first school in 1658 and, in the following year, she founded the Congregation of Notre-Dame, one of the first non-cloistered Catholic orders for women, whose mission was and still is education.