page_title: Claudine Thévenet
hierarchical_section_title: Claudine Thévenet
caption_attribution_description: English: The Foundress of the Congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary.
context_page_description: Claudine Thévenet in religious Marie of Saint Ignatius - was a French Roman Catholic professed religious 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 dissolute 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.
context_section_description: Claudine Thévenet (30 March 1774 – 3 February 1837) in religious Marie of Saint Ignatius - was a French Roman Catholic professed religious 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 dissolute 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.
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