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Maria, de Liincarnation

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a French female missionary, whose original name was Guyard, was born at Tours in 1599. She early joined the Ursuline nuns; visited Canada in 1639, where she made many converts among the Indians; and founded a conlvent of her order. She died in 1672. See Charlevoix, Vie de la Mere Marie de l'Incarnation; Biographie Universelle, s.v.