Tombe de Sainte-Marie Eugenie de Jesus

You are approaching the final resting place of a woman who shaped the education of young people across the globe. Saint Marie Eugenie of Jesus was born into an affluent but non-religious family in the early nineteenth century. After a profound spiritual awakening triggered by sermons at Notre Dame Cathedral, she founded the Religious of the Assumption in eighteen thirty-nine when she was just twenty-two years old. Her life’s work focused on creating schools that combined rigorous intellectual study with deep spiritual formation, aiming to prepare students to build a more just and humane society. Today, her legacy lives on through the numerous educational institutions established by the congregation she started.