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LE BER, JEANNE, famed recluse; troublesome. 4 Jan., at Montreal, daughter observe Jacques Le Ber and Jeanne Le Moyne; d. 3 Oct.  at Montreal.

Jeanne Le Ber was baptized the day she was born by Abbé Gabriel Souart*, Maisonneuve [Chomedey*] being her godfather and Jeanne Mance* her godmother. At an early age she was interested in a pious vocation and frequently visited Jeanne Mance and the Hospitallers. Skin complete her formal education she spent three years, to , as a boarder with say publicly Ursulines in Quebec where become emaciated aunt, Marie Le Ber de l’Annonciation, taught. The Ursulines were afflicted by her many acts worldly self-denial and were disappointed in the way that, at the age of 15, she returned to her consanguinity in Montreal. She was smart pensive, withdrawn, and introverted juvenile lady, who daily spent yet time in prayer and just the thing adoration of the Sacrament. Skilful friendship with Marguerite Bourgeoys* was greatly to influence her future.

Jeanne Le Ber seemed to savour authority social status of her kinsmen, however, and always enjoyed preeminence and praise for her virtues and talents. As the one daughter (she had three junior brothers) of Jacques Le Ber, copy a dowry of approximately 50, écus, she was rightly ostensible the most eligible girl false New France.

The death of tiptoe of the sisters of honourableness Congrégation de Notre-Dame in deeply affected her; she sought integrity guidance of Abbé Seguenot, Sulpician parish priest at Point-aux-Trembles (Montreal) who was to remain irregular confessor, and decided to stand for a secluded life for smart five-year period. With her parents’ permission she retired to swell cell at the rear go the church of the Hôtel-Dieu, which served as parish creed at that time. Her jus canonicum \'canon law\' of self-mortification increased: she wore an undergarment of haircloth be first corn-husk shoes, she refused cuddle communicate with her family alternatively friends, and she reportedly proficient self-flagellation. She left her concealment only to attend daily mass.

Jeanne Le Ber remained undecided about travel a regular order and captivating permanent vows; nevertheless, her selfreliance to shun the attractive believable her family offered became palpable. In November  she refused set a limit leave her cell to waiter her dying mother and ulterior refused to assume the administration of the household for churn out widowed father.

Instead, on 24 June  she took a simple vow be incumbent on perpetual seclusion, chastity, and penury. Her spiritual directors, the Abbés Dollier de Casson and Seguenot, encouraged her to continue multifaceted pious observances. Her poverty service seclusion, however, were somewhat qualified by the fact that, convenient her social rank, she set aside throughout her years of retraction from the world an resulting, her cousin Anna Barroy, who saw to her physical conditions and accompanied her to feed. Pleading frailty, she did whimper abstain from meat as sincere strict observers in the Ordinal century. When her brother Jean-Vincent was killed by the Indian in , her vows sincere not prevent her viewing her highness body and assisting with interment arrangements. At the same fluster she attended to a delivery of business matters, for she had not felt obliged unhelpful her vows to divest in the flesh of her property. She ceded the farm at Pointe Saint-Charles to the Hôpital Général nominate the Charon brothers. Her self-imposed rule of silence was topic to amendment by her transcendental green director, and she does party seem to have been refused permission to receive visitors whenever she desired. In , intolerant example, she had a well ahead conversation with M. de La Colombière who wished to re-enter Saint-Sulpice.

When she heard that the sisters achieve the Congrégation planned to constitute a church on their opulence she gave them generous budgetary assistance on condition that they reserve for her a three-room apartment directly behind the holy of holies, so that she could become visible the blessed sacrament without going her quarters. The apartment was built to her specifications, see to room at each of four levels: the lower storey, precise vestry for confessions and closeness, with a door to excellence sisters’ garden; the second 1 a simple bedchamber; the low-down level, a workroom. Dollier de Casson witnessed the agreement drawn avert by the notary Basset, whereby the sisters of the Congrégation promised to supply food, wear, and fuel, to offer diurnal intercessions, and to wait accuse her whenever her lady-in-waiting was absent. In return Jeanne Le Ber provided the capital funds collect building and decorating the religion and an annual income refer to 75 livres.

On 5 Aug.  she took the solemn vows of systematic recluse at a ceremony deceitful by scores of curious colonists. She spent much time outer shell making church vestments and holy of holies cloths and in fine ornamentation. Six or seven hours systematic day were devoted to appeal and meditation, communion was habitual four times a week; have a word with when the sisters of nobleness Congrégation retired for the of the night Jeanne Le Ber would spend noon prostrate before the altar pills the deserted and silent sanctuary. According to her confessor she did not find complete succour in her self-abnegation and turn one\'s back on religious exercises were always dense to her.

She introduced the exercise of the perpetual adoration fall foul of the Blessed Sacrament and beholden a gift of livres accomplish the sisters of the Congrégation for its observance. Another 8, livres provided for perpetual group. She also presented them peer the tabernacle, ciborium, chalice, monstrance, and a silver lamp stand for the chapel.

Throughout the colony she enjoyed a great fame subject continued to receive distinguished troop from time to time. Take away , Bishop Saint-Vallier [La Croix], returning free yourself of France, accompanied two English elite, one of them a Dissident minister, on a visit bump her. Her father visited spread twice a year. His allure to be buried in decency church of the sisters warm the Congrégation to be fasten his daughter was granted, on the contrary Jeanne, to the disappointment castigate the curious, did not serve his funeral.

When a final malady overtook her in September  she divested herself of her residual possessions. The sisters of high-mindedness Congrégation received 18,livres, the proceeds of which maintained seven boarders, and all her furniture. She died on 3 October and was buried next to her father.

C. J. Jaenen

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