Mother Marie-Anastasie

Mother Marie-Anastasie, formerly Marie-Alexandrine Conduché, (17 November 1833 – 21 April 1878) had her initial formation with her Notre Dame Sisters of the Rodez diocese and later, she founded the Notre-Dame Dominican Congregation of Saint-Rosaire of Monteils. From a poor, lower class household, she had a good education and religious background. They arrived on March 10, 1849, at the religious community near Capdenac. On April 8, Conduché passed for the group of the postulants. Two months later, on June 13, she was called to wear the religious habit and adopted the name of Sister Marie-Anastasie, which means resurrection. Father Gavalda's niece was named Sister Marie Joseph.

Congregation of the Dominicans of Our Lady of the Rosary, Bor

Ready for classes to begin, Father Gavalda called the young women back to Bor after six months of formation. They returned on December 31, 1849, and classes began the next day and 24-year-old Sister Marie Joseph was named superior of the convent. The school was run by 17-year-old Sister Marie-Anastasie.

On October 8, 1851, Sister Marie-Anastasie was named Master of Novices. She became the head of the convent when Sister Marie Joseph left the convent in September 1862. She was designated Prioress on October 10, 1862, by the Sisters of Notre Dame. At the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary in 1863, she took her perpetual vows.

The communities continued to multiply themselves and the foundations happened in other countries bordering France: Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria, Spain. In 1885, a group of six Sisters from the Congregation crossed the Atlantic Ocean asked by the Dominican Order, and started it in the city of Uberaba, Brazil.