Claudine Thévenet
Claudine Thévenet, RJM (30 March 1774 – 3 February 1837), religious name Marie of Saint Ignatius, was a French Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Religious of Jesus and Mary.
Thévenet witnessed the horrors of the French Revolution – she saw two of her brothers executed – and went on to cater to the needs of children while using her congregation to provide local girls with a religious education.
Thévenet was beatified on 4 October 1981 and was later canonized as a saint on 21 March 1993.
Patron saint of Religious of Jesus and Mary
In the Martyrology
- February 3 Saint Marie de Saint-Ignace Thévenet, virgin, founder of the Religious of Jesus and Mary