Relic & Holy Card of Venerable Mother Marie of the Holy Spirit/Delia Tetreault for Sale

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Relic & Holy Card of Venerable Mother Marie of the Holy Spirit/Delia Tetreault:
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Laminated Holy Card and Relic of Venerable Delia Tetreault aka Mother Marie of the Holy Spirit Foundress of theMissionarySisters of the Immaculate Conception. The relic is a piece of cloth that was touched to the body of Delia Tetreault.
DéliaTétreault, M.I.C., also known as Mother Marie of the Holy Spirit, was a Canadian Religious Sister. Though shenever left her homeland, she felt called to serve the needy of the world, forwhich purpose she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conceptionin 1902, the first missionary congregation of Canadian origin. The cause forher beatification is under study by the Holy See.

She was bornin Marieville, Quebec, on 4 February 1865. She and her twin brother Roch wereamong the nine children of Alexis Tétreault, a farmer, and his wife, CélinePonton. She had a weak constitution and was usually sick but it was Roch whodied seven months later. Two years after that loss, her mother died. Her fatherthen decided to emigrate to the United States to find a living and she wastaken in by her aunt, Julie Ponton, and her husband, Jean Alix.

Tétreaultwas raised in a very religious household. When she was a child, she would hidein the attic where she would read through the stacks of copies of theperiodicals published by the Propagation of the Faith and the Holy ChildhoodAssociation, both founded to promote the support of the missionary activity ofthe Catholic Church in Asia and Africa. For her education, her aunt enrolledher in a school in the village run by the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary.

One nightthe young Tétreault had a very significant dream. She was kneeling by her bedwhen all at once, she saw a wheat field. The heads of the wheat each changed toheads of children from different parts of the world. At the age of 13, she beganto feel a calling to the religious life as part of this call to serve the needyof the earth. At the age of 15, she made the vow of perpetual chastity.

Deciding toact upon her sense of calling, at the age of 18, Tétreault asked to join theCarmelite monastery of Montreal but they refused her. She then applied to theSisters of Charity of Saint-Hyacinthe, who accepted her as a postulant. Howeverher poor health soon brought her back to her uncle\'s home. During that time,she felt confirmed in her call to establish some form of missionary service forCanadian women as the Paris Foreign Missions Society had provided to Canada inthe early centuries of its development.

In 1891,Tétreault joined the Sisters of Bethany and stayed there for 10 years. It wasduring her time serving in a poor neighborhood of Montreal that she realizedher dream of an apostolic school for women and a seminary for the foreignmissions. Around this time, she met Father Gustave Bourassa who was her guideand led her to all the important persons she needed to fulfill her dreams. In1902, Paul Bruchési, the Archbishop of Montreal gave permission for thefounding of the congregation. Two years later, he went to Rome and spoke toPope Pius X about this new foundation. The pope immediately answered, \"Found,found, and all the blessings of Heaven will fall upon this new Institute andyou will call them the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.\"

In 1905,Tétreault took religious vows for the first time and the religious name ofMother Marie of the Holy Spirit. In 1909, the first six Sisters of the newcongregation left for Canton, China. Within a short time, several conventsopened throughout Quebec to provide support for the missions of thecongregation. In 1920, they launched a missionary review, Le Précurseur. On 2February 1921 the school of formation for the foreign missions began tooperate. By 1933, the foundress had established 36 communities of theMissionary Sisters in Canada, China, Japan and the Philippines.

In 1933,Tétreault became seriously ill. She died on 1 October 1941 and her body lay instate for four days at the motherhouse of the congregation. Approximately onethousand people came to pray over her remains. She was buried in the cemeteryon the grounds of the motherhouse on 7 October.

In 1958 thefirst steps were taken to obtain Tétreault\'s beatification by the Vatican. In1982, Cardinal Paul Grégoire, then the Archbishop of Montreal, approved theprocess in view of the introduction of the cause in Rome. The canonical closureof the diocesan proceedings took place in 1997 and the cause was accepted byRome for further study.

Presentlythe Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception are in 13 countries and of17 nationalities, including 582 professed sisters and 87 sisters in initialformation.