Venerable Catherine de Francheville

Venerable Catherine de Francheville

1620–1689 · Reformation

Biography

Catherine de Francheville, born September 21, 1620, at the Château de Truscat in Sarzeau and died March 3, 1689, in Vannes, was a 17th-century Breton religious woman who, after completing the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola herself, founded the first retreat house for women in the world in Vannes.

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