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March 10

María Eugenia de Jesús Milleret (1817–1898)

Religious

Raised in a French family with little practice, Ana Eugenia Milleret experienced a profound conversion in her youth and discovered that faith could transform society through education.

Biography

At the age of twenty-two, she founded the Religious of the Assumption to comprehensively educate girls and young people, uniting broad culture, character, responsibility and love for Jesus Christ. He faced family losses, economic difficulties and internal trials without abandoning his conviction that each person is called to collaborate in the Kingdom of God. He made teaching an evangelizing and social mission.

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