[Illustration: SISTER MARGARET BOURGEOIS
Foundress of the Congregation of Notre Dame
ESTABLISHED IN MONTREAL. CANADA. 1659.]






THE LIFE OF VENERABLE SISTER MARGARET BOURGEOIS,


FOUNDRESS OF THE SISTERS OF THE
CONGREGATION OF NOTRE DAME.

_ESTABLISHED AT MONTREAL, CANADA, 1659_.

_TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH_

BY A RELIGIEUSE,
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.






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