Françoise d'Amboise
Member of the French nobility and co-founder of the first monastery of the Carmelites in France
Feast: 4 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the convent of the Scots near Nantes in France, Blessed Françoise d'Amboise, who, Duchess of Brittany, founded a Carmel for women at Vannes in France, into which, once widowed, she then withdrew as a handmaid of Christ.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 4 November as a Duchess of Brittany who founded a Carmel for women at Vannes and entered it as a widow.
The cause
Françoise d'Amboise has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Carmel of Morlaix: Blessed Francoise d'Amboise.
- Roman Martyrology, 4 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q271833 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Françoise d'Amboise (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.