Joan Antidea Thouret

Joan Antidea Thouret (in French Jeanne Antide) was a nun and a saint. She founded the Sisters of 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 French Revolution she spent an exile in Swiss and Germany.

In 1797 she returned in France where she founded a school only for poor girls. In 1799 she founded a new congregation: the Sisters of Charity supported by Letizia Ramolino, Napoleone's mother.

In 1819 her insitute was approved by Pius VII who gave some canonic privileges to her convents.

She died in Naples in "Regina Coeli" monasterium in 1826.