Jeanne Elisabeth Bichier de Ages

Joan Elizabeth Lucy Bichier des Ages was a French religious sister, commonly referred to as Elizabeth Bichier. Together with Andrew Fournet, she founded the Daughters of the Cross, Sisters of St. Andrew, a religious congregation which was established for the care of the poor and the instruction of rural children in the Diocese of Poitiers in 1807. She also helped to inspire the founding of a community of priests dedicated to missionary service, the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Betharram. She has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church.

Bichier was born in 1793 in the Chteau des ges, home of her aristocratic family near the village of Le Blanc, then in the ancient province of Poitou , located in the Central Loire Valley. She was one of the four children of the couple and later was commonly called Elizabeth by her family. She was baptized that same day at the local Church of SaintGnitour. Her mother was a religious person and ensured that her daughter was taught how to pray and the basics of the Catholic faith. Elizabeth proved a ready student, already feeling drawn to prayer from her childhood.

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