MONTAIGNAC de CHAUVENCE, LOUISE-THÉRÈSE. - Foundress of the Oblates of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, born at Le-Havre-de-Grâce (diocese of Rouen), died at Montluçon (diocese of Moulin) on 27 June 1885.
Having settled at Montluçon after the death of her aunt, who had piously brought her up, she wished to establish there a work providing sacred furnishings especially for poor churches; gathering in a house adjoining her own several poor orphans, she began an orphanage, in whose church a day of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament was established for every Thursday of the year. As the orphanage grew, in order to give stability to the work she founded, with the approval of ecclesiastical authority, the Pious Union of the Oblates of the Sacred Heart, on 21 Dec. 1874; she was elected superior general on 17 May 1880. The new Institute spread through many dioceses of France; it received the decree of praise in 1881 and definitive approval in 1895. The cause of beatification was introduced by decree of 23 Dec. 1914.