LITTLE FRANCISCAN OF MARY

Little Franciscan of Mary – Sister Marie-Victoire of Our Lady of Sorrows, P.F.M.                                                                                    Le Petite Franciscaine de Marie                                                                                                                                  The “Brown Nun”                                                                                                                    “La Croix, Notre Vie”  –  “The Cross, Our Life”

Founders:  Mother Marie- Joseph  (Marie-Louise Rondeau)                                                                                    Mother Marie-Anne de Jesús  (Marie Bibeau)                                                                                        Reverend Joseph Brouillet                                                                                                                        Reverend Ambroise-Martial Fafard

Place:  Worcester, Massachusetts; Motherhouse in Baie-Saint- Paul, Quebec

Year:  1892 A.D.

Her Charism:  A Little Franciscan of Mary (otherwise affectionately known as “Father Brouillet’s Rebel”) is called to follow Christ by living the Gospel in the evangelic spirit of her Seraphic father, St. Francis of Assisi, and her foundresses in joy, simplicity, fraternal communion, and love of the poor and the forsaken at the heart of humanity today.  Specifically, she strives to fulfill all works of mercy that are needed in a given place at a given time.  With a generous and loving heart she conducts schools, orphanages, homes for the aged, and hospitals both at home and abroad.