About Marie-Eugénie de Jésus
Marie-Eugénie de Jésus was a French Catholic nun who founded the Religious of the Assumption and is a Catholic saint. Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (born Anne-Eugénie Milleret de Brou; 25 August 1817 – 10 March 1898) was a French Catholic nun who founded the Religious of the Assumption and is a Catholic saint. At the congregation's first Mass in November 1839, she and three other women took their religious names; Anne-Eugénie would now be known as Marie-Eugénie de Jésus. To this end, she founded the Religious of the Assumption in 1839, a contemplative and apostolic congregation dedicated to transformative education.
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