Marie-Renée Roudaut [SEP] date of birth
Marie-Renée Roudaut
Marie-Renée Roudaut (3 March 1847 - 18 October 1930) was a Catholic missionary nun. With the name Mother Marie-Salomé she was the first Superior General of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (White Sisters).
Early years.
Marie-Renée Roudaut was born in Guissény, Brittany, France, on 3 March 1847 to a farming family.
She was the sixth child of René Roudaut and Marie-Jeanne Lessec.
Her cousin was one of the
sisters were given the task of looking after orphan Arab children.
In January 1872 Marie-Renée Roudaut, cousin of one of the first Breton recruits, reached Algeria with four other volunteers.
On 23 June 1872 she took the name of Soeur Marie-Salomé, and on 6 July 1873 she pronounced her first vows.
Lavigerie requested help in recruiting nuns from his former diocese of Nancy, and some sisters came from two congregations in Nancy, the Sisters of St. Charles and the Sisters of the Assumption. These