Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French nobleman, founder of Montreal and an order of nursing Sisters
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Place of Birth: La Flèche, Pays de la Loire, France
About Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière
- Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière (18 March 1597 – 6 November 1659) was a French nobleman who spent his life in serving the needs of the poor.
- A founder of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal, he also helped to establish the French colony of Montreal.
- Although a layman, as part of that objective, he was the founder of the Congregation of the Religious Hospitallers of St.
- Joseph, Religious Sisters dedicated to the care of the sick poor.
- He has been declared Venerable by the Catholic Church.
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