Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
Founder, Good Shepherd Sisters (
1868 Anno Domini A.D.) Feast: 24 April
Rose Virginie Pelletier was born in Brittany , France . At the age of 24 she joined the Refuge of Our Lady of Charity of Tours , a community dedicated to the rescue of prostitutes. She was eventually elected superior of the house but...
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[ Mary ] soon after was persuaded to take over management of another refuge for "fallen women" in Angers . She approached her charges with compassion & charity: "Love them, console & strengthen these wounded sheep; make them happy, very happy, by God's grace 
; this is your duty." She added: "It is better not to preach too much; it only wearies them." Eventually she founded a new congregation, the Institute of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd 
Mary urged her sisters to approach troubled women & girls with the tenderness that Veronica showed Christ :jesus: when she wiped his brow. As Mother Euphrasia , she saw her order grow & spread across the globe 
"Having brought to birth all our young sisters in the Cross," she wrote, "I love them more than life itself. And the root of that love 
is in God & in the knowledge of my own unworthiness."
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Mother Euphrasia died of cancer in 1868 A.D. At that time her sisters numbered nearly 3,000 in 110 convents 
. As she had said, "The habit we wear must be zeal, & that zeal must embrace the whole world." She was canonized in 1940 A.D.
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"Go after the lost sheep without other rest than the cross , other consolation than work, other thirst than for justice."
-St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
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