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The Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher, S.N.J.M., (October 6, 1811 – October 6, 1849) was a Canadian Roman Catholic Religious Sister, who founded the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. She was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1982. ==Early life== She was born Eulalie Mélanie Durocher in the village of Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Quebec on 6 October 1811. She was the tenth of eleven children born to Olivier and Geneviève Durocher, a prosperous farming family. Three of her siblings died in infancy. Her brothers Flavien, Théophile, and Eusèbe entered the Roman Catholic priesthood, and her sister Séraphine joined the Congregation of Notre Dame. Durocher was home-schooled by her paternal grandfather Olivier Durocher until the age of 10. Upon his death in 1821, she became a boarding pupil at a convent run by the Congregation of Notre Dame in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu until 1823, where she took First Communion aged 12. After leaving the convent she returned home to be privately tutored by Jean-Marie-Ignace Archambault, a teacher at the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe.〔 During this time she owned a horse named Caesar and became a competent equestrian.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher (1811-1849) )〕 In 1827, aged 16, Durocher entered the boarding school of the Congregation of Notre Dame in Montreal in 1827, where she intended to enter the novitiate as her sister Séraphine had earlier done. However, her health proved too poor to allow her to complete her education there and after two years she returned home.〔 A contemporary of Durocher's from her time at boarding school later wrote: "() was wonderful; she alone was unaware of her own worth, attributing all to God that was found favourable in her, and asserting that of herself she was only weakness and misery. She possessed charming modesty, was gentle and amiable; attentive always to the voice of her teachers, she was still more so to the voice of God, who spoke to her heart." In 1830, Durocher's mother Geneviève died, and Durocher assumed her mother's role as homemaker. In 1831, Durocher's brother Theophile, who at that time was curate of Saint-Mathieu Parish in Belœil, persuaded his father and Durocher to move from the family farm to the presbytery of his parish.〔 At the presbytery, Durocher worked as housekeeper and secretary to Theophile between 1831 and 1843.〔 During the course of this work she was made aware of the severe shortage of schools and teachers in the surrounding countryside (in 1835 Quebec was home to only 15 schools)〔 and discussed with her family and acquaintances the need for a religious community specifically dedicated to the education of children both rich and poor.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marie Rose Durocher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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