Our Foundress:
Saint Marie-Eugénie de Jésus. R.A., born Anne-Eugénie Milleret de Brou, (August 25, 1817 – March 10, 1898) was a Catholic religious sister who founded the religious congregation of the Religious of the Assumption in 1839.
On June 3, 2007, she was canonized in the Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI.At the age of 22, with four young companions, she founded the Religious of the Assumption.
of 2007, the Religious of the Assumption included 1,300 Sisters from 44 nationalities, located in 34 countries on four continents. From the beginning, the order's work would be a partnership with the laity. Today's Assumption is a lay and religious partnership.
"Education is to allow the good in every person to breakthrough the rock that imprisons it and bring it into the light where it can blossom and shed its light..." - St. Marie Eugénie de Jesus, Foundress, Religious of the Assumption.
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