Catherine de Longpré was born in France in 1632. At the age of 12, she entered the convent of the Hospataliers of Bayex, a branch of the Augustinians, the first order to send missionaries to Canada.  In 1648 she asked to go to Quebec City to help the sisters in...

BORN:  1347 DIED: 29April 1380 CANONIZED: 1970. PATRONESS OF FIRE PREVENTION Saint Catherine from her childhood consecrated her virginity to God. She was so great a woman who underwent all kinds of humiliations in her own house just because her parents wanted her to marry against her wish and will...