Pauline vanier biography
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This biography was written by Deborah Cowley and is just one of the 50 biographies beautifully illustrated in the book Canada: Portraits of Faith, published and edited by Michael D.
Clarke.
Pauline vanier biography
It is a priceless treasure that I urge you to acquire. Copyright © 1998 by Michael D. Clarke, used with permission.
Pauline Vanier
1898-1991
“Faith, far from being outmoded or old-fashioned, imparts a beauty,
a richness, and a radiance that can be found in no other source.”
Deborah Cowley
Pauline Vanier was born in Montreal in 1898.
She was the only child of Charles Archer, a Quebec Superior Court judge, and his wife, Thérèse de Salaberry, whose seigneurial ancestors had come to Canada in 1730.
Pauline’s early studies in Montreal’s Sacred Heart Convent gave her a strong religious foundation, and her subsequent readings with a worldly-wise tutor of English and French literature developed her lively mind and ins