Marie Ren%C3%A9e Roudaut


MarieRene Roudaut was a Catholic missionary nun. With the name Mother MarieSalom she was the first Superior General of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa .

MarieRene Roudaut was born in Guissny, Brittany, France, onMarch 1847 to a farming family. She was the sixth child of Ren Roudaut and MarieJeanne Lessec. Her cousin was one of the first nuns to go to Algeria to assist the Archbishop of Algeria, Charles Lavigerie, in running the diocesan orphanages. Her cousin could not complete her novitiate due to poor health, but returned to Brittany where she talked to Roudaut, who decided to join the congregation.

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