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- Occupation: Ursuline Nun (Oct 7, 1691, Domestic Nun) (Aug 5, 1694,
Vows)
Religion: Catholic
Alias: Caludine; Sister of the Visitation
Marie-Claude, born on 3 March 1672 and baptized 17 days later at
Quebec, entered the Ursuline Convent at the age of 19 as a domestic
nun on 7 October
1691. She took the name of "Sister of the Visitation", when she made
her vows on 5 August 1694. She was sent to Trois-Rivieres in August
1699 where
"she was at one and the same time, nurse, cook, laundry woman,
gardener, and keeper of the chicken coop." When she became blind
toward the end of
her days, she still found the means to render service to the
community while not missing a single day without making her devotions
to the Virgin in the
Chapel of the Saints. She died in 1745 at the age of 73.
When daughter Marie-Claude, called "Claudine" by Notary Chambalon,
entered the Ursuline Convent, her father was supposed to pay the nuns
a dowry
which he neglected to do. Somewhat embarrassed, the sisters asked
the notary to look into this delicate matter, which he did. Papa paid
up by 4 August
1694.
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1672 - 1745 (72 years)