Marie of the Incarnation

Who they were

Barbe Avrillot, born in Paris in 1566, felt called to the cloister while at school with the Poor Clares, but married Pierre Acarie in obedience and was an exemplary wife and mother of six. In the famine of the siege of Paris she showed great charity.

She brought the reformed Carmelites of St Teresa to France. Widowed in 1613, she entered the Carmel as a lay sister and died at Pontoise in April 1618.

The miracles

Her cause was introduced at Rome in 1627. The Catholic Encyclopedia does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.

Why that counted as sanctity

A wife and mother who brought the Carmelites to France.

Connected on this site

• Anne Bourdon Saint
  “She learned the languages of the native peoples from Marie of the Incarnation.” — Wikipedia
• Marie Guyart Saint
  “Marie of the Incarnation (née Marie Guyart; 28 October 1599 – 30 April 1672) was a French Ursuline nun, missionary, mystic, educator, and writer who founded the Ursuline monastery of Quebec and helped establish the first institution devoted to the education of girls in North America.” — Wikipedia
• Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament Blessed
  “She was the second daughter of Marie of the Incarnation, who introduced the Reform of the Carmelite Order into France.” — Wikipedia
• Maria Petyt Venerable
  “Dominique Tronc places her between Marie of the Incarnation and Madame Guyon as one of the major female witnesses to a mystical experience carried to maturity, and compares the intimacy of her autobiographical writings with Guyon’s later Vie par elle-même.” — Wikipedia