Saint Marie Victoire Therese Couderc

Saint Marie Therese was a nun in the Sisters of Saint Regis, serving as novice mistress and house superior in La Louvesc, France. She was then elected superior general of her order. With Father Stephen Terme, she founded the Congregation of Our Lady of the Retreat in the Cenacle, in La Louvesc in 1826; it began in a mountain hostel for women pilgrims, and its ministry spread to the conducting of spiritual retreats. Sister Marie resigned as superior in 1838, and lived her remaining years as a humble sister. Her congregations still serves in many retreat houses around the world and in the United States. St. Marie Therese is remembered on September 26.