Marie rose ferron biography sample

Roman Catholic mystic and stagmatist

Marie Rose Ferron (24 May 1902 – 11 May 1936), often called the Little Rose, was a Canadian-AmericanRoman Catholicmystic and stigmatist.^[2]

Ferron was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2017.^[3]

Life

Ferron was born in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Quebec, as the tenth child of a large and devout Catholic family which moved to Fall River, Massachusetts in 1906.

It is said that she was six years old when she had her first vision of Jesus, as a child, carrying a cross. "He was looking at me with sadness in His eyes," she once said.^[4]

At the age of 13, Ferron was stricken with a mysterious paralysis and painful contraction of the muscles, forcing her to walk with crutches for several years until her twisted and clubbed feet confined her to a bed for the rest of her life.

Because her muscles would sometimes painfully contract, making it very difficult to straig