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Roman Catholic saint. Born Zoe Labouré in the Burgundy region of France, she was the ninth of 11 living children of farmer Pierre Labouré and Louise Gontard. Her mother died when Catherine was only nine, and she and her younger siblings were sent to live with their aunt in Saint-Rémy. Extremely devout and of a somewhat romantic nature, she chose a life with the Daughters of Charity after having a dream about the order's founder, St. Vincent de Paul. Having lost her mother at a young age, Catherine was drawn to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and in 1830, she reported that she was visited by the Blessed Virgin, appearing within an oval, atop a globe, and surrounded by the words "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."   The Virgin told Catherine to take this image to her father confessor, to have it struck onto a medallion, and spread devotion of it. After two years of investigating Catherine, the priest took the drawing to his archbishop and the m...