Saint Jeanne Jugan, also known as Marie de la Croix or Marie of the Cross, was born on October 25, 1792, in the small and impoverished fishing village of Les Petites-Croix in Cancale, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France. She was the daughter of Joseph, a fisherman who spent most of his time at sea, and Marie, who worked as a farmer to support the family during a time when Christianity was...