Bl. Marie-Élisabeth Turgeon

Élisabeth Turgeon was born in 1840 at Beaumont, near Quebec City, the fifth of ten children. Her father died when she was fifteen, and she stayed home to help raise her sisters. In 1860 she entered the Laval Normal School in Quebec and qualified as a teacher with honours.

She founded the Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Rimouski to teach poor children in the countryside. She did this despite her own poor health.

She once said that "with the protection of Jesus Christ, spiderwebs are stronger than walls". She died in Rimouski in 1881, aged forty-one, and was beatified in 2015.

Marie-Élisabeth Turgeon was beatified in 2015.

Beatification allows public veneration, usually in a particular region or religious family. Canonization extends it to the whole Church.