Bl. Marie Poussepin

Feast Day: October 14

Marie Poussepin was born in 1653 at Dourdan (Isle of France). She was very active in the Confraternity of Charity founded by a follower of Saint Vincent de Paul and later assumed responsibility for her family and its business.

Her life during those years was spent among her professional tasks, her charitable enterprises, her availability to the parish and her belonging to the Dominican laity. In 1691 she entrusted the family business to her brother.

In 1696 she went to Sainville in Beauce in order to found a community of the Dominican laity. She gave to the Church the first “Dominican Sisters of Charity”. She died in January 1774.