This collection of of sketches on the life of Saint Mary Eupharasia Pelletier, Foundress of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, is for children and all others. Permission is granted by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Bangalore, India to use these sketches. The drawings are by Pascal Croci, and narration by Pierre Dhombre, and is copyright in 1991. Clicking on each line will take you to a particular event in the life of St. Eupharasia. Using your 'browser's' BACK ARROW will take you back to this page to view another picture. Special thanks to Provincial and Superior of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Sr. Anita Hodges, rgs, Archivist of the Good Shepherd Convent, and other Sisters for their contributions and for the copy of the booklet.

• Rose Virgina Pelletier was born in Noirmoutier
• As a child , Rose Virgina was playful
• The cleaning of St. Philbert's Church
• Rose leaves for a boarding school in Tours
• Life in the boarding school was tough
• Rose visits the Superior of Our Lady of Charity
• Rose enters the Refuge
• Rose takes the name Sr. Mary Eupharasia and looks after the Teenagers
• Sr. Eupharasia was elected as Superior of the Refuge
• Reopening of the Good Shepherd House after the Revolution
• The Sisters arrive at Angers
• The homeless children are taken care off
• The building of the Chapel, everyone pools in
• The resistance Sr. Mary Euphrasia encounters
• Pope Gregory XVI approves of Sr. Eupharasia's new Congregation
• The congregation opened many houses and novices came from different countries
• Many benefactors help
• The words of Sr. Eupharasia
• Homes for the needy were sprouting in different places
• The epidemic takes it's toll
• The reactions in England and America
• The Sisters in Algiers and Cairo
• The famine in France in 1847-1848
• The women prisioners are looked after
• The St. Nicholas Abbey is bought, the Congregation spreads
• Bishop Charbonneau asks and the Sisters to come to Bangalore in 1854
• The journeys to the East
• Sr. Mary Eupharasia dies on April 24th, 1868

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