History of Alodie Virginie Paradis
She was born on May 12, 1840 in L'Acadie, then from the Diocese of Montreal, now from the Diocese of Saint-Jean-Longueuil and merged with the city of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. Baptized under the name of Alodie Virginie, her family always called her Elodie.
Paternal house
in L’Acadie
She was the only daughter and the third in a family of six children, four of whom will survive. Her parents, Joseph Paradis and Émilie Grégoire, struggled to earn a living in a rural area. She inherits the goodness and gentleness of one as well as the firmness and charity of the other.
Photo at the age of five
At the age of nine, she was a boarder with the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre-Dame in Laprairie.