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Marie Guenet de Saint-Ignace

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Marie Guenet de Saint-Ignace (1610-1646) was a French-Canadian abbess and hospital manager. Originally from Rouen, she was the founder and manager of the convent hospital Hôtel-Dieu de Québec in Quebec in 1639.[1][2] It was the oldest convent for women in Quebec, founded the same year as the Ursuline school convent by Marie de l'Incarnation - the two groups of nuns came to Canada in the same ship, which departed from Dieppe.

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  1. ^ Greer, Allan; Bilinkoff, Jodi, eds. (2003). Colonial saints: discovering the holy in the Americas, 1500 - 1800. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-93495-4.
  2. ^ Herval, René (1947-01-01). Dieppe (in French). FeniXX. ISBN 978-2-402-59171-3.