{"id":1182,"date":"2014-04-04T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2015-02-03T16:31:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T21:31:58","slug":"want-to-know-more-about-canadas-new-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/want-to-know-more-about-canadas-new-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to know more about Canada’s new saints?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pic_2014-04-04_124817\"<\/a>Two major figures from the history of New France were canonized on April 3rd 2014 by Pope Francis: Marie Guyart, better known as Marie de l\u2019Incarnation (1599-1672), and Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, or Fran\u00e7ois de Laval (1623-1708). Marie de l\u2019Incarnation came to New France as an Ursuline nun in 1639, and helped to establish and run Canada\u2019s first school, and Fran\u00e7ois de Laval was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of New France, arriving in Quebec in 1659.<\/p>\n

The library holds many titles both by and about these two historical figures. Especially notable among McGill\u2019s holdings are the published letters of Marie de l\u2019Incarnation<\/a>, printed in 1681, shown here. The book was published by her son, Claude Martin (1619-1696), who was still a young boy when she left him in France to come to the New World, and many of her letters are to him. Martin had also written, in 1677, a biography of his mother (see en electronic copy<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The life of Marie de l\u2019Incarnation interested her contemporaries, including historian and explorer Pierre Fran\u00e7ois Xavier de Charlevoix (1682 \u20131761). His 1724 biography of her, La vie de la mere Marie de l\u2019Incarnation<\/a>, can also be consulted in Rare Books and Special Collections. <\/p>\n

Both of these titles are part of the Lawrence Lande Canadiana Collection<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two major figures from the history of New France were canonized on April 3rd 2014 by Pope Francis: Marie Guyart, better known as Marie de l\u2019Incarnation (1599-1672), and Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, or Fran\u00e7ois de Laval (1623-1708). Marie de l\u2019Incarnation came … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}