Mother Bruyère
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Thailand, with children
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Haiti, caring for the sick
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Mother
d'Youville
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Élisabeth Bruyère (1818-1876), a member of the Sisters of Charity, known as Grey Nuns of Montreal, a religious congregation founded by Marguerite d'Youville(1701-1771), was sent on mission to Bytown, (today known as Ottawa), to assist the unfortunate and for the education of young girls. A woman of bold faith and active hope, Élisabeth multiplied her acts of love and charity in response to the needs of her time and her milieu: school, home care, hospital, home for the elderly, orphanage, evening courses for mothers, etc. She was 26 years old when she arrived in Bytown in 1845.
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Brazil, this dyed cloth will be used for weaving
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Lesotho, sharing of bread
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Canada, study is important
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Eventually the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa became autonomous in 1854. How could she not be totally devoted to all types of afflictions? Her model, Marguerite d`Youville, was truly the hand of Providence reaching out to the unfortunate; she was the face of compassion, the personification of tenderness.
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Malawi / Zambia, in the kitchen
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Japan, with the elderly
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Cameroon, Sister visits the hospital,
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