Blessed Marie-Léonie Paradis was a Quebec-born religious sister who founded the Institute of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family almost a century and a half ago
Pope Francis holds an open-air mass to canonize fourteen new saints in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Oct. 20.Pope Francis canonized 14 saints, one of whom was Canadian, during an open-air mass in St. Peter’s Square that was both celebratory and sombre, since most of the new saints had met violent ends.
Francis also canonized two Italian saints and the 11 “Martyrs of Damascus,” who were murdered in 1860 during the Shiite Druze persecution of Christians, which had spread from Lebanon to Syria at the time. She was born Virginie Alodie Paradis in 1840 in L’Acadie, Que., roughly halfway between Montreal and the head of Lake Champlain. At a young age, she entered the convent of the Marianites of Holy Cross, a congregation of women dedicated to helping Holy Cross priests through teaching, housekeeping and tending to their care. Later, she was sent to teach at St. Vincent’s orphanage in New York.
Sister Paradis’s beatification process began in 1952 in Sherbrooke. She was formally introduced as a Servant of God, the first step towards possible canonization, in 1966 under Pope Paul VI.
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