[2] In 1862 she was sent to the St. Vincent de Paul, a parish for French-speaking Catholics in Manhattan, where the congregation ran an orphanage.
She remained there until 1870,[3] when she joined the Sisters of Holy Cross, the American branch of the congregation, located at Notre Dame, Indiana.
In 1874, Paradis was appointed novice mistress at the Collège Saint-Joseph in Memramcook, New Brunswick.
On a number of occasions she asked Bishop John Sweeny of New Brunswick to grant approval to the small community, but it was not forthcoming.
In 1895, she persuaded Bishop Paul LaRocque of Sherbrooke, who was himself looking for domestic staff for his seminary, to receive the motherhouse and the noviciate of the Little Sisters into his diocese and to give them diocesan approval.
Pope John Paul II recognized Paradis' life of heroic virtue on 31 January 1981 and proclaimed her to be venerable.
[8] The miracle in question is the healing of an infant girl having suffered from perinatal asphyxia with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and encephalopathy, born a preterm birth at Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu on November 9, 1986.