On a golden October day in 1640 the twenty-year-old Marguerite Bourgeoys set out from her home in the ancient city of Troyes to take part in the annual Rosary procession. She had no idea that before her return she would find herself "completely moved and changed". She had now started on a path that would eventually carry her to the America that was still very much a new world in her time and eventually to the frontiers of that New World. Her journeys of the spirit were to be