Rose Philippine Duchesne
(1769-1852)
18th and 19th-century French Catholic religious sister and missionary in the United States
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Rose Philippine Duchesne (August 29, 1769 – November 18, 1852), was a French religious sister and educator who was declared a saint of the Catholic Church. Along with the foundress, Madeleine-Sophie Barat, she was a prominent early member of the Religious Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and founded the congregation's first communities in the United States. She spent the last half of her life teaching and serving the people of the Midwestern United States, then the western frontier of the nation.
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29 August 1769 Grenoble, Dauphiné, Kingdom of France
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| Died |
18 November 1852 (aged 83) St. Charles, Missouri, U.S.
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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