About Émilie Gamelin
Émilie Tavernier Gamelin was a Canadian Catholic social worker and religious sister best known as the founder of the Sisters of Providence of Montreal. In 2001, she was beatified by Pope John Paul II. Joseph in Emmitsburg, Maryland, founded by Elizabeth Ann Seton in 1809, with the aim of obtaining a model for a new religious congregation. When she returned to the Perrault household in 1819, her aunt, now old and infirm, put Émilie under the care of her daughter Agathe (born 1787), who became a third mother to her. In March 1838, Gamelin contracted typhoid fever and became seriously ill; however, she later recovered. At this ceremony, Gamelin and the other six novices became religious sisters, taking the traditional vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience as well as a fourth one of service to the poor.
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