Blessed Marie Anne Blondin
Founder, Sisters of St. Anne (
1890 Anno Domini A.D.) Feast: 18 April
Esther Blondin, the daughter of poor farmers 
was born in Lower Canada . At 20, she entered domestic service, eventually finding work with a teaching order in Montreal 
There she learned to read & write 
& in time was hired to teach in a parochial school & even serve as principal 
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In 1848 A.D. Blondin proposed to the bishop ♗ of Montreal that she found a congregation dedicated to the "education of poor country children, both boys & girls in the same schools" (a daring proposal for its time). She won his approval, & so a novitiate was established for the new congregation, the Sisters of St. Anne. Blondin, who had taken the religious name Marie Anne, was selected to serve as superior.
While the order quickly grew, a new chaplain began to exert dictatorial control. When Mother Marie Anne resisted, he compelled her to resign as superior. She complied without protest, but he was not satisfied until she had been relegated to complete obscurity, performing domestic chores in the laundry 
& kitchen 
There she spent her remaining years. Mother Marie Anne died on January 2, 1890 A.D. 
A generation would pass before her memory was restored to honor in her congregation
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Blondin was beatified in 2001 A.D.
"The deeper a tree sinks its roots into the soil 
the greater are its chances of growing and producing fruit 
" 
-Blessed Marie Anne Blondin , on being assigned to lowly work
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