Marie-Françoise Giffard de Saint-Ignace
Marie-Françoise Giffard de Saint-Ignace | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 11, 1634  |
| Died | March 15, 1657 |
| Father | Robert Giffard de Moncel |
Marie-Françoise Giffard de Saint-Ignace (June 11, 1634 – March 15, 1657) was a Hospitaller of the Hôtel-Dieu de Quebec. She was the first Catholic nun born in present-day Canada.
Marie-Françoise Giffard was born on June 11, 1634, in Quebec City, only days after the arrival in New France of her parents, Robert Giffard de Moncel and Marie Regnouard.[1] Robert Giffard was a surgeon and apothecary who became New France's first colonizing seigneur. In 1646, she took her vows and entered the Hôtel-Dieu, taking the religious name of the recently deceased mother superior, Marie Guenet de Saint-Ignace.[2] Shortly before her death, she passed the name on in turn to her six year old niece, Jeanne-Françoise Juchereau de la Ferté de Saint-Ignace.[1]
Marie-Françoise Giffard died on 15 March 1657 in Quebec City.[2]
References
- 1 2 "La Sœur Marie Morin". Bulletin des recherches historiques. 7: 86–87. 1901. Archived from the original on 2025-01-21. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
- 1 2 Marie-Jean-d’Ars Charette, c.s.c., “GIFFARD, MARIE-FRANÇOISE, dite Marie de Saint-Ignace,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed December 23, 2024, https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/giffard_marie_francoise_1E.html.