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Also known as

• Eulalie Durocher

Memorial

• 6 October

Profile

Tenth of eleven children. Drawn to the religious life, but turned away due to frail health. She became housekeeper to her brother Theophile, a priest at Beloeil. Because newly independent Canada still had a bit of the wild about it, its bishop (the whole country was a single diocese) had trouble getting European religious to emigrate, so he founded new communities. Eulalie helped found the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary who serve as teachers, taking the name Marie Rose.

Born

• 6 October 1811 at Saint Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada as Eulalie Durocher

Died

• 6 October 1849 at Longueiul, Quebec, Canada of natural causes

Venerated

• 13 July 1979 by Pope John Paul II

Beatified

• 23 May 1982 by Pope John Paul II

Patronage

• against bodily ills
• against loss of parents
• against sickness
• sick people

Readings

Do not imitate those persons who, after having spent a few months as a postulant or novice in a community, dress differently, even ludicrously. You are returning to the secular state. My advice is, follow the styles of the day, but from afar, as it were. – Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher, giving advice to a novice leaving the religious life

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Marie Rose Durocher“. CatholicSaints.Info. 10 October 2023. Web. 27 April 2024. <>