Christian feast day: Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

19th-century French Roman Catholic religious sister and saint

Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, RGS, religious name Mary of Saint Euphrasia, born as Rose Virginie Pelletier, was a French religious sister. She founded the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd and was its first superior general.