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Julie Billiart
French nun and Catholic saint
"Saint Julie" redirects here. For other uses, see Saint Julie (disambiguation).
Julie Billiart, SNDdeN (12 July 1751 – 8 April 1816) was a French Catholic nun, educator, and cofounder of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
She was born in Cuvilly, a village in Picardy, in northern France.
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She was paralyzed and bedridden for 22 years, but was well known for her prayer, her embroidery skills, and her education of both the poor and the nobility, especially her work with young girls. She had to flee Cuvilly after the start of the French Revolution and escaped to Compiègne, where the stress she experienced resulted in another illness that took away her ability to speak, and where she received a vision foretelling that she would found a new religious congregation that would eventually become the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
In 1794, she met the French noblewoman and nun, Françoise Blin de Bourdon, who became Billiart's co-founder an