Saint Juana of Lestonnac

Religioso Founder Father Widower
In Bordeaux, in France, saint Juana de Lestonnac, who, as a child, rejected the invitation and the efforts of his mother away from the Catholic Church and, on being widowed and after educating conveniently to their five children, founded the society of the daughters of our Lady, in imitation of the society of Jesus, for the Christian education of girls.