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Eldest child, and only daughter, of Baron James Augustine and Antoinette de Vialar. Sent to Paris for education, her mother died when Emily was 15, and the girl returned home. She managed her father's house until she was 35 years old, privately devoting herself to a life of celibacy and prayer, and occasionally arguing with her father over her desire to enter religious life.

Upon receiving a large legacy through her grandfather's will, she and three other women founded the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Apparition; the Apparition refers to the appearance of Gabriel to Joseph, telling him to flee to Egypt. She managed to lose all her money, and her reputation in the Albi diocese was destroyed, so she established the mother-house of the order in Marseilles. In the years until her death, she established 40 houses in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Born
1797 at Gaillace, Albi, southern France as Anne Marguerite Adelaide Emily de Vialar
Died
24 August 1856 at Marseilles, France