St. Marie of the Incarnation, originally known as Marie Guyart, was born in Tours, France on October 28, 1599. Daughter of a baker, she was raised in a family of craftsmen and tradesmen. Although she desired to enter religious life, she entered an arranged marriage, against her wishes, with Claude Martin, a silk manufacturer, at age seventeen, and was soon the mother of one son. Widowed only after two years of marriage, she moved back with her family, and refused to discuss re-marriage. She began work as an embroiderer.

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