Marie de l incarnation facts of life
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Saint Marie of the Incarnation
Childhood:
Marie Guyart was born in Tours, France, probably on street des Tanneurs. Her parents, Florent Guyart and Jeanne Michelet, were master bakers and had seven children.
It was a Catholic home where children were encouraged to get an education. During the first three decades of her life, she lived in the world of the artisans and the middle-class merchants of Tours. She lived there for forty years, from her birth until her departure for Canada, from 1599 to 1639.
Youth, mystical graces :
Little is known about her education.
Marie de l incarnation facts of life
She attended school. She admits to having received a “good education” which “gave her a good foundation in all things Christian and in good morals. At the age of seven, she had her first mystical grace which led her to give herself to Christ.
She then had a striking dream that she herself would recount much later (1653): “In my sleep, it seemed to me that I was in the courtyard of a country school