Femmes fortes: Mysticism and the Female Apostolate of Marie de l'Incarnation
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Abstract
Sending news of the death of Marie de l’Incarnation, one of the founders of the Ursuline convent in Québec, to the Ursulines in France, Mère Marguerite de S. Athanase described at length Marie’s fortitude in the face of her painful final illness, declaring that she had “the title and the quality of femme forte” (Marie de l’Incarnation, Corr. 1011).1 That Marguerite did not merely call Marie “strong” but rather emphasized that she had earned the title of “strong woman” speaks to her sense of Marie’s exceptional nature. This is not surprising-Marie led a noteworthy life. In addition to her central role in establishing the convent in Québec, Marie was wellknown during her lifetime as a mystic, a renown that only increased after her death with the publication by her son of several volumes based on two autobiographical relations and hundreds of letters.2 Indeed, early in her life she was both a mystic and a very effective and practical businesswoman; her visions persuaded her and others that she should help found the convent in Québec while her business skills helped her lead the convent once she was in Canada. Jérôme Lalemant, one of her spiritual directors in Québec and author of many of the Jesuit Relations, called her “a second Saint Teresa” or “the Teresa of Canada,” a title frequently given her to this day. Even Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, a staunch critic of mysticism, overlooked Marie’s own mystical past in repeating Lalemant’s epithet and praising her as an exemplary religious woman (Bruneau 178).3 In 1980 she was beatified and efforts continue to have her canonized.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".