Marguerite Bourgeoys et la Congrégation de Notre Dame, 1665-1670
Marguerite Bourgeoys et la Congrégation de Notre Dame, 1665-1670

Author: Patricia Simpson

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2007-10-19

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 0773584684

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Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700) was canonized in 1982. Patricia Simpson goes beyond myth and hagiography to explore Bourgeoys's dream of establishing a radically new religious community of women, recounting her thirty-year struggle to obtain official recognition for the Congrégation of Notre-Dame. Simpson shows that the order faced great resistance from the male Church hierarchy despite the fact that the pioneer society depended on the work of the Congrégation. The order was particularly important in assuming the guardianship of many filles du roi - young women sent to New France under royal auspices to be married to the men of the colony. Simpson also examines the many difficulties the Congrégation faced, which included natural disasters and the dangers involved in trying to reach women and children in settlements throughout New France, as far away as Acadia.

Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Congregation of Notre Dame, 1665-1700
Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Congregation of Notre Dame, 1665-1700

Author: Patricia Simpson

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2005-12-12

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0773573194

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Simpson shows that the order faced great resistance from the male church hierarchy despite the fact that the pioneer society depended on the work of the Congregation. The order was particularly important in assuming the guardianship of many filles du roi - young women sent to New France under royal auspices to be married to the men of the colony. Simpson also examines the many difficulties the Congregation faced, which included natural disasters and the dangers faced in trying to reach women and children in settlements throughout New France, as far away as Acadia.

Vatican II and Beyond
Vatican II and Beyond

Author: Rosa Bruno-Jofré

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2017-12-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0773552642

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The year 2015 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second Vatican Council, which aimed to align the Church with the modern world. Over the last five decades, women religious have engaged with the council’s reforms with unprecedented enthusiasm, far exceeding the expectations of the Church. Addressing how Canadian women religious envisioned and lived out the changes in religious life brought on by a pluralistic and secularizing world, Vatican II and Beyond analyzes the national organization of female and male congregations, the Canadian Religious Conference, and the lives of two individual sisters: visionary congregational leader Alice Trudeau and social justice activist Mary Alban. This book focuses on the new transnational networks, feminist concepts, professionalization of religious life, and complex political landscapes that emerged during this period of drastic transition as women religious sought to reconstruct identities, redefine roles, and signify vision and mission at both the personal and collective levels. Following women religious as they encountered new meanings of faith in their congregations, the Church, and society at large, Vatican II and Beyond demonstrates that the search for a renewed vision was not just a response to secularization, but a way to be reborn as Catholic women.

French Missionaries in Acadia/Nova Scotia, 1654-1755
French Missionaries in Acadia/Nova Scotia, 1654-1755

Author: Matteo Binasco

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-10-11

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 3031105036

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This book investigates and assesses how and to what extent the French Catholic missionaries carried out their evangelical activity amid the natives of Acadia/Nova Scotia from the mid-seventeenth century until 1755, the year of the Great Deportation of the Acadians. It provides a new understanding of the role played by the French missionaries in the most peripheral and less populated area of Canada during the colonial period. The decision to focus on this period is dictated by the need to investigate how and to which extent the French missionaries sought to carry out their activity within a contested territory which was exposed to the pressures coming out of both French and British imperial interests.