Marie Eugenie Milleret
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Saint Marie-Eugénie de Jésus |
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Photograph c. 1880.
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25 August 1817 Metz, Moselle, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 10 March 1898 (aged 80) Auteuil, Paris, Île-de-France, French Third Republic |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 9 February 1975, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Paul VI |
| Canonized | 3 June 2007, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI |
| Feast | 10 March |
| Attributes | Religious habit |
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Saint Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (25 August 1817 - 10 March 1898) - born Anne-Eugénie Milleret de Brou - was a French Roman Catholic professed religious and the foundress of the Religious of the Assumption. Her life was not geared towards faith in her childhood until the reception of her First Communion which seemed to transform her into a pious and discerning individual; she likewise experienced a sudden conversion after hearing a sermon that led her to found an order dedicated to the education of the poor. But her religious life was not without its own set of trials for complications prevented her order from receiving full pontifical approval due to a select few causing problems as well as the deaths of religious from tuberculosis in the beginning of the order's life.
Her beatification was celebrated under Pope Paul VI in 1975 while her canonization was later celebrated on 3 June 2007 under Pope Benedict XVI.
Anne-Eugénie Milleret de Brou was born during the night of 25 August 1817 in Metz as one of five children (three males and two females) to Jacques Milleret and Eleonore-Eugénie de Brou. Her baptism was celebrated on 5 October. Her father - somewhat cold and strict - was a follower of Voltaire and he was a liberal which often put him into contact with his diminishing faith. He had made his fortune from banking and politics. Milleret de Brou once fell from a horse in her childhood and suffered injuries. One distant ancestor was the Italian condottieri Miglioretti who served Francis I. Her parents met in Luxembourg when he was nineteen and she was 22 and that was the time when the two married. In 1822 her brother Charles (1813-1822) died and her little sister Elizabeth died in 1823. Her eldest brother was Eugene (b. 1802) and her brother Louis (b. 1815-16) was older than her.
The girl grew up in a chateau in the suburb of Priesch which was located north of Paris. When she was 13, her father lost all his money and their estate. Her parents separated in 1830 (her father's lost fortune was the contributing factor) and she moved to Paris with her mother (her brother Louis moved with their father) who had had a deep concern for the poor and tended to poor families; she often accompanied her mother visiting those poor families in need. Her mother died of cholera in 1832 (after just a few hours of pain) and she spent the remainder of her teens tossed between two sets of relations with one she found concerned with vanities and other pleasures with the other as having a narrow spirit of piousness. But she was separated from the brother who had been her main companion as a child and she wondered about life and how to live out the spirit of faith and justice that her mother had taught her. In 1825 she made a pilgrimage to the shrine of Sainte-Anne d'Auray where she felt called to found a religious order dedicated to educating the poor.
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