Catherine-Aurélie Caouette

Catherine-Aurélie Caouette (July 11th 1833 - July 6th 1905) is a nun and known Canadian mystic to have founded the Adoratrices of Invaluable-Blood.

Born with Saint-Hyacinthe, she was baptized by the abbot E. Durocher in the parish church Notre-Dame of the Rosary. During its youth, it was placed in a convent of the Congrégation of Notre-Dame of Montreal. It made there soon its first communion. The higher noticed it for its intelligence, its simplicity, its modesty, its sensitivity, its imagination and its piety.

In 1850, at the seventeen years age, it leaves the convent. It develops at this time a great eucharistic hunger which it fills with worship, fast, deprivations and mortifications. It was touched in its heart by Jesus Christ and spent long hours in front of the Tabernacle. She practiced the daily communion and was led towards a life of Renonciation.

August 30th, 1854, it accepted the dress of the Third-Order of Saint-Dominique during the festival of holy Rose of Lima. She adopted with enthusiasm the worship of the Invaluable-Blood of Jesus and had as a model holy Catherine of His. The September 14th 1861, festival of the Exaltation of the Holy-Cross, it united with three partners for formed her congregation devoted to the glorious blood of Christ.

Mgr Joseph Larocque, his bishop, was very happy to encourage the development of its work. The house of the congregation had to be increased in front of the fast increase in the number of consarées sisters with Jesus. The goal of the sisters is to make repair of the faults made against Christ through the total devotion of their life, in particular by mortification, the worship and the abstinence.

During its life, its congregation was spread in many Canadian and American cities, of which Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Three-Rivers, Sherbrooke, Nicolet, Portland, Manchester, Brooklyn and Havana. The father Victor Chocarne, provincial of Dominican, had praised his holiness as of 1868. She died on July 6th, 1905 after long and vigorous spiritual life. She left spiritual writings which testify to the clearness of its spirit.

The father Elie-J. Auclair wrote its biography in 1923.

Quotation

Eucharistie, oh! the beautiful one, the large one, sublimates it sacrament! Eucharistie, you contain, under your low appearances, That which the skies cannot contain. You contain my Whole, my Life. What thanksgivings, that the blessings, what a extreme love I do not owe to God any love, for the gift that It made me divine Eucharistie!

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