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Marie-Rosalie Cadron Jetté S.M. (née Cadron January 27 1794 – April 5 1864) more commonly known as Rosalie Cadron-Jetté (the Marie being a Québécois Catholic tradition indicating gender) was a Canadian midwife who undertook the charitable care of unwed and struggling mothers between 1840 and 1864. She is best known as the foundress of the Sisters of Misericorde. Cadron-Jetté was born and raised in Lavaltrie Quebec and in 1811 married Jean-Marie Jetté.

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