Religious of the Sacred Heart; born Piscataway, Maryland, 1806; died Paris, France, 1886. She established all the convents (30) of her order up to the year 1883 in eastern United States, Canada, and Cuba. In 1871, she was appointed assistant to her mother-general at Paris. Her remains were transferred from Conflans, France, to Kenwood, Albany, New York, in 1905.
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