24-678: Grey Nuns Motherhouse , now known as the Grey Nuns Building , is a former motherhouse of the Grey Nuns located at 1190 Guy Street , in the Borough of Ville-Marie , Montréal, Quebec, Canada. It is also named Grey Nuns Hospital of Montréal (not to be confused with Grey Nuns' Hospital located south of Place d'Youville ). The building was completed in 1871. In 2007, it was bought by Concordia University and refurbished. It now serves as co-ed housing for 598 undergraduate students on
48-486: A bootlegger. By 1744, the association had become a religious congregation with a rule and a formal community. In 1747, the women were granted a charter to operate the General Hospital of Montreal , which by that time was in ruins and deeply in debt. D'Youville and her fellow workers re-established the financial security of the hospital. Unfortunately it was destroyed by fire in 1765. The congregation rebuilt
72-536: A disreputable foreigner. On August 12, 1722, at Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal , Marguerite married François d'Youville, a bootlegger who sold liquor illegally to Indigenous peoples in exchange for furs. He frequently left home for long periods for parts unknown. The couple had six children together before François died in 1730. By age 30, D'Youville had suffered the loss of her father, husband and four of her six children, who died in infancy. But she underwent
96-403: A fire at the orphanage area in the building above the hospital killed at least 53 babies, with speculations of a higher death toll, suggesting other babies were cremated in the fire. Individuals involved in the design and construction include: The site is rectangular, bordered by Rene Levesque Boulevard at the south, Guy Street at the east, St. Catherine Street at the north, and Saint Mathieu at
120-514: A home for the poor in Montreal . At first, the home housed only four or five members, but it grew as the women raised funds. As their actions went against the social conventions of the day, d'Youville and her colleagues were mocked by their friends and relatives, and even by the poor they helped. Some called them "les grises", which can mean "the grey women" but which also means "the drunken women", in reference to d'Youville's late husband's career as
144-476: A patient after relapse, after prayers to Sister Marguerite. The woman in the case is the only known long-term survivor of this disease in the world, having lived more than 40 years from a condition that typically kills people in 18 months. Numerous Roman Catholic churches, schools, women's shelters, charity shops, and other institutions in Canada and worldwide are named after St. Marguerite d'Youville. Most notably,
168-464: A religious renewal during her marriage. "In all these sufferings Marguerite grew in her belief of God's presence in her life and His tender love for every human person. She, in turn, wanted to make known His compassionate love to all. She undertook many charitable works with complete trust in God, whom she loved as a Father." Marguerite and three other women founded in 1737 a religious association to provide
192-480: A situation that offered a strong possibility of survival. They knew their fellow soldiers to be dying in nearby prisons -- places notorious for their exposure to the heat and cold and unchecked pestilence. As hard as they must have worked at Pointe-Saint-Charles, the men could easily have regarded their captivity at least as a partial blessing." Marguerite d'Youville died in 1771 at the General Hospital. In
216-449: Is a total of nearly 600 residence beds. The chapel has become a reading room that can accommodate 230 students. There are 14 group study rooms, a daycare facility, and a cafeteria area allowing resident students the choice of preparing meals. In the basement there is a crypt in which 276 people are buried, 232 of whom were Grey Nuns who had lived at the motherhouse. It is held in trust for the sisters, who are permitted to enter it. The crypt
240-570: Is large, and of stone construction. It is 4 storeys tall, with the exception of the west wing, which is 5 storeys tall. Its central part is rectangular and contains a chapel with an octagonal tower and spire. The windows and dormers are regularly placed. Now called the Grey Nuns Building by Concordia University , the site has become a student residence. In 2007, it was bought by Concordia for $ 18 million and refurbished for $ 15 million. The university initially announced that it would become
264-505: Is off limits to students and others, but can be viewed through a window in a locked door. Originally, there were plans to transfer all of the buried remains to Île St. Bernard , a site owned by the Grey Nuns and the location of Manoir d’Youville. However, the health department of Quebec would not permit the tombs to be opened and the bodies exhumed . This was because some of the sisters buried there had died of infectious diseases. Among
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#1732787047950288-804: The Catholic institution of higher learning, D'Youville University in Buffalo, New York , is named after her. The D'Youville Academy at Plattsburgh, New York was founded in 1860. It was listed on the US National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Lady Jetté, wife of Sir Louis-Amable Jetté , at one time Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, wrote a biography of Marie-Marguerite d'Youville. In 2010, Marie-Marguerite d'Youville's remains were removed from Grey Nuns Motherhouse and relocated to her birthplace of Varennes. On September 21, 1978, Canada Post issued Marguerite d'Youville-stamps, based on
312-748: The South Shore . In 2011, it was designated one of the National Historic Sites of Canada . The building was constructed in the nineteenth century to serve as a motherhouse for the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, formerly called The Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal and more commonly known as the Grey Nuns of Montreal, a Canadian religious institute of Roman Catholic religious sisters, founded in 1737 by Saint Marguerite d'Youville. On Valentine's Day in 1918,
336-496: The Early American Frontier : "These 21 men were not captive freeholders, resentful of their captors' religion and longing to reestablish themselves at home. They were for the most part young soldiers, many of them conscripts, simply wishing to survive their captivity. However strange they may have found the community that held them and the woman who supervised them, they were probably relieved to find themselves in
360-481: The Sir George Williams Campus within the neighbourhood redevelopment project Quartier Concordia . A crypt containing the graves of 276 nuns and other individuals is located in the basement. Among them was Mother Marie-Marguerite d'Youville , the first native-born Canadian to be declared a saint. In 2010 her remains were removed and relocated to her 1701 birthplace of Varennes , a community on
384-523: The buried are the nieces and a son of Mother Marie-Marguerite d'Youville . In 2010, the remains of d'Youville were removed and transferred to her birthplace of Varennes for burial. Motherhouse A motherhouse or mother house is the principal house or community for a Catholic religious community. One example is the Missionaries of Charity 's motherhouse in Kolkata , which functions as
408-597: The congregation's headquarters. A motherhouse would normally be where the residence and offices of the religious superior of the community would be located. If the community is divided geographically, it is referred to as the provincial motherhouse and would be where the regional superior would be in residence. This article about a building or structure type is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Marie-Marguerite d%27Youville Marguerite d'Youville , SGM ( French pronunciation: [maʁɡʁit djuvil] ; October 15, 1701 – December 23, 1771)
432-489: The faculty of fine arts, but later decided to turn the site into residences. It serves as co-ed housing for 598 undergraduate students on the Sir George Williams Campus within the neighbourhood redevelopment project Quartier Concordia . The entire site is owned by Concordia except for a basement crypt. The main entrance that was once on St-Mathieu Street is now located on Guy Street. The renovations undertaken have made space available for 355 new beds for resident students. There
456-599: The hospital soon after. As the congregation expanded to other cities, it became known simply as the "Grey Nuns". D'Youville has been described as "one of Montreal's more prominent slaveholders". She and the Grey Nuns used enslaved laborers in their hospital. They also purchased and sold both Indian slaves and British war prisoners, including an English slave whom she purchased from the Indians. As described in The Captors' Narrative: Catholic Women and Their Puritan Men on
480-474: The next century, her status continued to increase, as people cited prayers for her intervention in aiding them. After her spiritual writings were approved by theologians on February 1, 1888, her beatfication process was formally opened on April 28, 1890, and she was granted the title Servant of God . She was declared Venerable by Pope Pius XI on June 16, 1931. In 1959, she was beatified by Pope John XXIII , who called her "Mother of universal charity". She
504-440: The west. It is enclosed with stone walls and metal fencing. Within this area are a main, large, H-shaped building of stone construction, various smaller buildings, and grounds containing numerous trees, gardens, statues, and pathways. The architectural style is a superb example of convent architecture of the 19th century. This is achieved by combining Neoclassical and Romanesque Revival styles. The main building has an H-shape,
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#1732787047950528-612: Was a French Canadian widow who founded the Sisters of Charity of Montreal , commonly known as the "Grey Nuns". She was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1990, becoming the first native-born Canadian to be declared a saint. She was born Marie-Marguerite Dufrost de Lajemmerais in 1701 at Varennes, Quebec , the oldest daughter of Christophe du Frost, Sieur de la Gesmerays (1661–1708) and Marie-Renée Gaultier de Varennes. (According to Quebec naming conventions , she would have always been known as Marguerite, not Marie.) Her father died when she
552-593: Was a young girl. Despite her family's poverty, at age 11 Marguerite was able to attend the Ursuline convent in Quebec City for two years before returning home to teach her younger brothers and sisters. Marguerite's impending marriage to a scion of Varennes society was foiled by her mother's marriage below her class to Timothy Sullivan, an Irish doctor who was considered by the French Canadians to be
576-517: Was canonized in 1990 by Pope John Paul II . She is the first native-born Canadian to be elevated to sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church. Her feast day is October 16. In 1961, a shrine was built in her birthplace of Varennes. Today, it is the site of a permanent exhibit about the life and works of Sister Marguerite. The review process for canonization included review of a medically inexplicable cure of acute myeloid leukemia in
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