Congregation of the Sisters of Misericorde

The Sisters of Misericorde were a religious congregation founded by Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté (1794–1864) in Montreal, Canada East, in 1848 and was dedicated to nursing the poor and unwed mothers.

In the early 1840s, Bishop Bourget asked Jetté if she would provide a safe, discreet, and welcoming home for expectant unmarried women.

The congregation was founded in 1848 in Montreal, by Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté to provide assistance to poor mothers and unfortunate girls.

[1] As Madame Jetté (Mother Mary of the Nativity) declined the role of Superior, Sister St. Jean de Chantal held this office.

[3] It seems very questionable that sentiment ...which affixes upon illegitimate motherhood of a young girl the stigma of irreparable infamy, does not, in the majority off cases, accomplish more evil than good.

To assert that by maternity out of marriage ...a housemaid is hence unfit to care for children, and ...should be turned forthwith, and without warning upon the streets, as the pitiless law of England today permits, ...is not merely false, but the underlying sentiment that inspires such action is both inexpedient and unjust.The sisters also conducted Magdalene asylums.