‘Sister Cider’

Marthe Le Bouteiller was born Aimée-Adèle Le Bouteiller in 1816. She grew up in the village of Percy in Normandy. Her father died when she was young, so she helped to run the family farm and took an extra job as a housemaid in order to support her mother.

In 1841 she paid a visit to a dilapidated abbey called St Sauveur le Vicomte. The abbey is the same one where St Marie-Madeleine Postel founded a congregation, the Sisters of Christian Schools of Mercy. After this visit she decided to enter the convent.