Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne - St. Patrick Catholic Church of

Saint Rose
Philippine Duchesne
1769-1852
Important Places in Her Life
• Grenoble – born on
August 29, 1769
• Ste-Marie-ďen-Haut –
Rose entered the
convent at the age of 18
Paris
FRANCE
Grenoble
Convent of
Ste-Marie-ďen-Haut
Important Places in Her Life
Centerville, KS
St. Charles, MO &
Florissant, MO
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans, LA – Rose
arrived in 1818 and
began her life in the
New World
St. Charles & Florissant,
MO – After her arrival,
Rose went to St. Charles
and founded an
academy in Florissant.
She died in St. Charles in
1852.
Centerville, KS– From
1841 to July of 1842 she
ministered to the
Potawatomi at the
Sugarcreek Mission
Modern-Day Grenoble, France
The town in which Rose was born in 1769.
Chapel in the Convent of Ste Marie
d'en Haut - Grenoble
Convent of Ste
Marie d'en Haut Grenoble
Rose was educated here before
she entered the novitiate of the
Visitation Order in 1788. She
remained there until 1801 when
the French Revolution made her
community disperse.
St. Madeleine
Sophie Barat
When Rose met the foundress
of a new religious community,
the Society of the Sacred Heart
of Jesus, she offered her the site
of the old convent and joined
their community.
Called to the
New World
Since a young age, Rose not
only heard the call to follow
Christ, but also to serve him
as a missionary in the New
World.
The Request to
Mother Barat
In a letter she wrote to
Mother Barat in 1806, Sr.
Rose requested to go to the
missions.
Mother Barat
would allow the request 12
years later.
Bishop Louis
William DuBourg
In 1817 Bishop DuBourg went
from his diocese in America to
France, and he invited
Duchesne and four other nuns
to join him in the New World.
After a 70-day voyage, they
met up with him again in New
Orleans.
The Sisters Opened
Free Academies for
Women (1818-1841)
These schools were in Saint
Charles, Florissant, and Saint
Louis, in Missouri, Grand
Coteau and St. Michael’s in
Louisiana.
Her Bedroom in
Florissant
Her room from 1819-1827 was
simply a small closet under the
stairs of the convent of the Old
Saint Ferdinand Shrine.
Photo by Mark S. Abeln
Old St. Ferdinand
Shrine in
Florissant, MO
Old Saint Ferdinand Convent
Mother Duchesne returned to the convent in Florissant in 1834 and
remained there until 1840. The next year she would go to Kansas.
Fr. Benjamin Petit
Priest who accompanied the Potawatomi from Indiana to the Mission
at Sugar Creek. His death inspired Mother Duchesne to go there.
Father Peter J. Verhaegen, SJ
Due to her age and poor
health, Mother Duchesne
wouldn’t have been able
to go to the Mission at
Sugar Creek, if it were not
for the insistence of
Father Peter J. Verhaegen.
He knew that her deep
life of prayer and her
Christian presence would
help the mission succeed.
Meeting Father
DeSmet
Mother Duchesne, three
other nuns, and three priests
took a 4-day steamboat trip
to the mission beginning on
June 29, 1841. Shortly
thereafter, they met Fr.
DeSmet, who encouraged
them in this work with the
Potawatomi.
Mother Duchesne Worked with the
Potawatomi Indians
Classroom for
Indian Girls in
Kansas
Mother Duchesne,
Missionary to
Young Girls & to
the Potawatomi
Mosaic in the
Cathedral Basilica
of St. Louis
Painting in the
Shrine in St. Charles
Final Resting Place in St. Charles, MO
She is buried at the Academy of the
Sacred Heart
Her Tomb
Canonization & Feast Day
• Beatification Date: May 12, 1940 by
Pope Pius XII
• Canonization Date: July 3, 1988 by
Pope John Paul II
• Feast Day: November 18
• Patron Saint of Cape Girardeau, MO
Contemporaneous
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Saint John Vianney
Saint Paul of the Cross
Blessed Junipero Serra
Saint Alphonsus Liguori
Blessed Anne Catherine
Emmerick
Saint Peter Julian Eymard
Saint Peter Chanel
St. Anthony Mary Claret
Saint Andrew Dung Lac
St. Catherine Laboure
Saint John Neumann
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
Saint John Bosco
Saint Caspar Del Bufalo
Saint Dominic Savio
Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat