November 18, 2021

St. Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769 - 1852) was born in Grenoble, France, Rose joined the Society of the Sacred Heart. In 1818, when she was forty-nine years old, Rose was sent to the United States. She founded a boarding school for daughters of pioneers near St. Louis and opened the first free school west of the Missouri. At the age of seventy-one, she began a school for Native American Indians, who soon came to call her "the woman who is always praying". Her biographers have also stressed her courage in frontier conditions, her singlemindedness in pursuing her dream of serving Native Americans, and her self-acceptance.

St. Rose please pray for us who are older in life to still have a chance to serve God through our ways and make a difference like you did.