Joan Antidea Thouret

Joan Antidea Thouret

Joan Antidea Thouret (in French Jeanne Antide) was a nun and is a Roman Catholic saint. She founded the Sisters of Divine Charity congregation.

Biography

Joan Antidea was born in 1765. When she was 22 she joined the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in Paris but during the French Revolution she was in exile in Switzerland and Germany.

In 1797, she returned to France where she founded a school for poor girls. In 1799, she founded a new congregation in Besançon, the Sisters of Charity, with the support of Letizia Ramolino, Napoleon's mother.

In 1819, her institute was approved by Pope Pius VII who gave canonical privileges to her convents.

She died at Regina Coeli monasterium, Naples, in 1828.