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Welcome to Forum Now. You're joining us for our series on Holy Women you've never heard of.

So we've drawn together some more obscure saints from throughout the tradition that we have been attracted to and want to share with you.

I'm Dr. Elizabeth Klein. I'm here today with Dr. Jess Murdoch. We're both professors who teach here

at the Augustine Institute. And this final episode, we're jumping way ahead in time. We just did

a medieval saint from the 14th century. Now we're jumping to the 19th century with a blessed,

so not fully canonized, but Blessed Mary Ann Blondin. So she lived basically throughout the entire 19th century.

So she lived from 1809 to 1890.

So she lived 81 years, which is, you know, a lot longer than some of the medieval and early saints

who didn't have as much medical care as we do now.

So she lived a long life.

And I'm the one who picked this one. Blessed Mary Amplandin is from Quebec. She's a Canadian saint, and I'm Canadian.

And when I'm on maternity leave, I try to like read the saint of the day. You know, you're like

stuck, nursing, whatever. And this is a particular saint that her story just really stuck with me. So

when we were thinking about this list of women, she just came to mind. I thought she'd be

someone really beautiful to talk about. So as I mentioned, Blessed Mary and Blondin is from Quebec.

So this is the French-speaking province of Canada. So that was the part settled by the French.

So it was strongly Catholic, maybe not so much today.

But in those times, definitely.

So she was the third child of a family of 12.

And she was the daughter of a farmer.

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