Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté

holy midwife

Date of Birth: 27-Jan-1794

Place of Birth: Lavaltrie, Quebec, Canada

Date of Death: 05-Apr-1864

Profession: midwife, nurse, nun

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté

  • Marie-Rosalie Cadron Jetté, S.M.
  • (née Cadron, January 27, 1794 – April 5, 1864), also known as Marie of the Nativity, was a Canadian widow and midwife who undertook the charitable care of unwed and struggling mothers between 1840 and 1864.
  • Out of this work, she became the foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of Misericorde.
  • The cause for her canonization is now being studied in the Vatican.
  • Pope Francis declared her "Venerable" in 2013. Cadron-Jetté was born and raised in Lavaltrie, Quebec, and in 1811 married Jean-Marie Jetté.
  • They had 11 children, several of whom died young.
  • In 1827 she moved to Montreal and in 1832 her husband died of cholera.
  • From 1840, in collaboration with Ignace Bourget (then Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Montreal), she engaged in the charitable care of unwed mothers.
  • At this time in Montreal, unwed mothers and those associating with them attracted a significant social stigma.
  • Cadron-Jetté operated initially out of her own home and the homes of her children, and later, with the aid of other women, worked from a series of buildings known as the Hospice de Sainte-Pélagie.
  • In 1848, she took religious vows, along with several other women, and founded a Roman Catholic religious institute known as the Sisters of Misericorde, dedicated to the care of unwed mothers and their children.
  • In 1849 she obtained formal midwifery qualifications.
  • In 1853 the Misericorde Sisters built a convent on the corner of Dorchester Boulevard and Saint-André Street, and she lived there the remainder of her life. Cadron-Jetté died in 1864.
  • After her death, Ignace Bourget, with whom she had worked closely throughout her life, proposed that Cadron-Jetté be considered for canonization by the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Over a century later, in 1989, the proposal was put into effect and her canonization cause was opened.

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