Jeanne Le Ber'’’s prayer on a picture of the Virgin

During times of conflict with the British, the settlers in Montreal were often alerted of eminent attacks. In the summer of 1709, they were told that a naval expedition, headed by General Nicholson, was anchored in Lake Champlain. Jeanne Le Ber, cloistered in the chapel of the Congregation, composed a prayer on an image of the Blessed Virgin requesting protection for the farms of the Congregation. This picture was placed on the barn door of the farm house in Pointe Saint-Charles. Some of the settlers also wanted to benefit from this protection and asked the recluse to compose more prayers on images that they would place in their homes. Jeanne Le Ber refused. The settlers took the Sisters’ image and copied the prayer. Jeanne prepared a second image for the Sisters, a document which has been preserved to this day.