The work of Providence
After 90 years of life totally committed to others, marked by suffering and renunciation, according to her own words, she said that her community was solely “the work of Providence.” Marie Poussepin will enjoy eternal rest in the Lord on January 24, 1744.
One of her many trials was that of having to renounce the Dominican identity for her community; this idea was not acceptable in her time. Both the Bishop of Chartres and the Master of the Order could not conceive of a Dominican life outside the cloister. In 1897, the Congregation will regain its Dominican identity but it will be aggregated definitely to the Order only in 1959.