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Rosalie Rendu

Beatified French Daughter of Charity (1786-1856)

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Feast: 7 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1786
Died
1856
Beatified
9 November 2003
unverified
Canonised
not yet

Who they were

At Paris in France, Blessed Rosalie (Jeanne Marie) Rendu, virgin of the Daughters of Charity, who, in a house in the poorest quarter of the city which she turned into a shelter for the needy, strove by every means to visit the poor in their homes, to restore peace during the civil war and to move many, above all the young and the rich, to the practice of charity.

The miracles

The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 7 February as a Daughter of Charity who served the poor of the poorest quarter of Paris.

Sources

Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.

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