Jeanne Le Ber was a 17th-century religious recluse living in Montreal, New France. Born into a wealthy and influential family in 1662, she was highly regarded within her community. At age eighteen, she received parental permission to live as an anchoress, withdrawing from society to focus on prayer. She lived in a specially constructed cell behind the altar of a church, where she maintained vows of poverty, chastity, and perpetual seclusion until her death in 1714.