Marie-Marguerite d’Youville, Saint for the downtrodden, Mother of Charity Universal, Providing board and bed, hospitals and homes for the needy of Montreal. Born 1701 into broken homes, betrothed to a broken drunken broke criminal, Marie just ever increased her courage, boldness, faith, love of God exceptional.
“With the happiness of living together happily united, happily harmonial.” So tempered from personal hardships, Marguerite’s empathy became invincible, Founding in 1727 Canada’s Sisters of Charity whose sacrifices ever helped those facing severest trials, Dedication to work for the diseased, destitute, outcast, crippled, orphaned, enslaved, prisoners of war or ill.
“All the wealth in the world cannot be compared,” so said Sister d’Youville,
No matter the years of fire, disease, extreme poverty service devotional ever greater in her life sacrificial.
As an angel with prophetic and healing powers that millions called miracles.
Deaths of almost all her family while birthing massive debts only empowered her spiritual.
Marie Marguerite prayers curing fatal acute myeloid leukemia as one example.
Whether the caring took place in L'Hôtel Dieu or L'Hôpital Général, The Grey Nuns set a standard for medical care and compassion, never failing to fulfill.
When in 1766 the hospital was destroyed by a blazing fire terrible,
So also to this day, the legacy and missions of the Sisters of Charity carry on unconquerable still, Providing hospitals and schools for the poorest native or international,
“Go to the Grey Nuns; they never refuse to serve,” often a refrain for severest troubles.
Afterwards Mère Marguerite knelt in the ashes, leading the staff and patients inconsolable, Singing the Te Deum a hymn to God’s power in us enduring, rebuilding, invincible;
Ever Alive with the Spirit of the Devotional — Marie-Marguerite d’Youville.
