Marie de l incarnation facts about earth
When she looked back on her life from earliest childhood, Marie Guyart recognized, “God never led me by a spirit of fear, but by love and trust.” She found that from her earliest days she had a tendency to respond to the good and an ardent desire to respond to God’s love and make him known.
Even as a young girl she was compassionate toward the poor and wanted to give away everything she had. “I cannot say how much I loved them. I felt a deep resentment toward those who refused to be charitable.” It was said of her that she had been born to be charitable.
Almost all her life, she was busy with multiple tasks. She lived her relationship with God in activity. She wrote, “Those worries never diverted my attention from God who was my constant preoccupation. On the contrary, I was strengthened because everything I did was in a spirit of charity and not for my personal profit.”
It can be said that she responded to the invitation of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit to share their inner life. She lived a relationship of love with God, one based on trust, faithfulness, and mutual self-giving. She wrote to her son, “Why should one hesitate to lose oneself in him who seeks to, and will, purify us if we abandon ourselves to him? … It gives me much more pleasure to love and attend to him than to stop to consider my baseness and my unworthiness.”
She addressed God with familiarity, as her protector: “My love, there is no way I can do all these tasks; please do them for me. Otherwise, they will not get done.”
Nothing could separate her from God, not even the dark nights and the trials that she experienced. She wrote to her son, “When I see myself becoming powerless, I try to lose myself in him, and if my heart has the strength for it, he knows well how to work with it. … To speak to you in a somewhat ingenuous way, my life consists of this exchange.”
Marie of the Incarnation burned with a desire that the God whom she loved should be known and loved by others. She develo Marie de l’Incarnation 1599-1672 was an Ursuline nun and one of the first women to do missionary work in New France. She wrote extensively about pioneer life in what later became Quebec, Canada. She founded the first school and produced the first examples of life-writing by a woman in North America. Hundreds of her French letters were published in Europe during her life and for centuries later. She was born Marie Guyart in Tours, France, the fourth child of a family of eight children. She was attracted to liturgy and prayer and recounted that she had a mystical experience when she was seven. At age fourteen she asked her parents to let her join the Benedictine nuns of Beaumont Abbey but they did not allow her to do so. Instead they had her marry Claude Martin, a master silk worker, when she was eighteen. Two years later they had a son whom they names Claude, but the husband died soon after leaving Marie a widow. She lived with her parents for a year and then when to live with her sister and bother-in-law, Paul Buisson to help them run their busy household. She continued to want to follow a religious life, but could not do so until she raised her young son, Claude. When he was 12 she left him in the care of her sister and entered the Ursuline convent in Tours in 1631. As a nun she had a religious vision which reinforced her spiritual devotion. Marie was inspired by the life of the Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila and also read some early parts of the Jesuit Relations which were circulating in France. She began a correspondence with the Jesuits in New France and found that they were supportive of having religious women coming to help them with the missions and the Christianization of Huron women. Later she wrote about having a mystical experience about going to the missions in Canada. She could not get support or funding from her religious superiors or her family to make a trip to the New World. In 1639 Marie met Madeline (adapted from “Elements of Ursuline History and Spirituality” by Sr Marie Bénédicte Rio osu) CHILDHOOD French Roman Catholic saint Saint Marie of the Incarnation OSU Portrait attributed to Abbé Hugues Pommier (1637–1686) Marie of the Incarnation, OSU (28 October 1599 – 30 April 1672) was a French Ursulinenun. As part of a group of nuns sent to New France (Quebec) to establish the Ursuline Order, Marie was crucial in the spread of Catholicism in New France. She was a religious author and has been credited with founding the first girls' school in the New World. Due to her work, the Catholic Church declared her a saint, and the Anglican Church of Canada celebrates her with a feast day. She was born Marie Guyart in Tours, France. Her father was a baker. She was the fourth of Florent Guyart and Jeanne Michelet's eight children. From an early age she was drawn to religious liturgy and the sacraments. When Marie was seven years old, she recounted her first mystical encounter with Jesus Christ. In her book Relation, of 1654 she recounted: "...with my eyes toward heaven, I saw our Lord Jesus Christ in human form come forth and move through the air to me. As Jesus in his wondrous majesty was approaching me, I felt my heart enveloped by his love and I began to extend my arms to embrace him. Then he put his arms about me, kissed me lovingly, and said, 'Do you wish to belong to me?' I answered, 'Yes!' And having received my consent, he ascended back into Heave Marie de l’Incarnation
Brief Biography
Little did anyone think, among her circle of family and friends, that she would become one of the great mystics of the 17th century which was to produce so many, and the first woman missionary.
Everything began with a dream... Marie was seven years old.
(J II, 160 Sullivan p.3-4)
It was only a dream, but the child was marked by it for life. Her "bent for good" and her desire for God increased, thereby putting into concrete form the "yes" pronounced in her sleep, a "yes" which was already a "yes" of betrothal. She chose Christ for her "captain" and even then she dreamt of foreign countries where she could "pro Marie of the Incarnation (Ursuline)
Born Marie Guyart
(1599-10-28)28 October 1599
Tours, Touraine, Kingdom of FranceDied 30 April 1672(1672-04-30) (aged 72)
Quebec City, Canada, New FranceVenerated in Catholic Church and Anglican Church of Canada Beatified 22 June 1980, Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, by Pope John Paul II Canonized 3 April 2014, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City, by Pope Francis Major shrine Centre Marie-de-l'Incarnation, Québec, Canada Feast 30 April Attributes Ursuline habit, crucifix Early life