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Lenferna de Laresle was born in Pointe-aux-Piments, Mauritius, on 20 March 1824. At the time she was growing up there were very few Roman Catholic community leaders in Mauritius. There were only five parishes, with around the same number of priests and no nuns at all. The few priests were
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Laresle founded her own order of nuns, the Congrégation des sœurs de charité de Notre-Dame-du-Bon-et-Secours (Congregation of Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Good Help) on 18 June 1850. The order had six nuns by 1855 and expanded to more than 60 by 1860. The order began in Port Louis and
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within 17 years had established 20 convents, hospitals, hospices, schools and nurseries. De
Laresle had been inspired to open the first orphanage after discovering an abandoned baby on Christmas Day. The sisters founded their first primary school at
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spent four years collecting de
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in 1853 and in 1855 came to the aid of the victims of an outbreak of cholera. The order also ran a leper colony, and from 1868 the sisters also served in the Civil
Hospital (now known as the Dr AG Jeetoo Hospital).
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Laresle decided to devote her life to charity and become a nun. As her father could not afford to send her to France for training, she studied as a
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Laresle was not baptised at birth. She attended a boarding school run by a Mrs Farquarson in
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Her order continues to this day and now has branches in Europe, Africa, Europe, Asia, and South
America. Father Carmello Conti Guglia of the
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As Mother Superior, de Laresle resisted control of the order by the successors of Collier as bishop of the
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Les auxiliaires laïcs du bienheureux Jacques Laval, apôtre de l'île Maurice: de l'esclavage à l'apostolat
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