María Luisa de Jesús Trichet (1684–1759)

Biography

A young French woman from Poitiers, María Luisa Trichet met Saint Louis María Grignion de Montfort and discovered a call to serve those whom society abandoned. She was the first Daughter of Wisdom and worked for years in the general hospital among the poor, sick and excluded people. He later opened free schools for girls and, after the death of Montfort, sustained and expanded the congregation with perseverance and prudence. He died on the same day of the year as its founder, after turning a shared intuition into a stable work.