Émilie Schneider

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Émilie Schneider (born September 6, 1820 as Juliana (Julie) Schneider in Haaren near Waldfeucht ; † March 21, 1859 in Düsseldorf ) was a German nun of the Daughters of the Holy Cross who worked in poor relief and nursing . In the Roman Catholic Church she is considered a mystic . After Karl Joseph Cardinal Schulte , the Archbishop of Cologne , initiated the process of her beatification in 1926 , Pope Benedict XVI recognized her . on July 6, 2007 the honorary title of Venerable Servant of God .

Life

Emilie-Schneider-Platz and Joseph's Chapel in Düsseldorf

Schneider was born as the fourth of ten children of the Protestant border officer August Friedrich Schneider and his Catholic wife Elisabeth, née Münch, in modest family circumstances. She was baptized a Catholic and received a good education. Then she worked as a teacher in the house of Baron de Favereau de Fraipont in Liège . After she had struggled since 1844 with the idea of ​​becoming a nun of the Order of the Daughters of the Holy Cross, founded in 1833 , she finally entered the Liège convent of this order on December 15, 1845 against the wishes of her parents and took the name Émilie . She decided to live for the needy in the city's slums. She made her first vows in February 1847 . After living in the monastery for seven years, she was sent to Haus Aspel near Rees in 1851 to serve as novice master in the monastery founded there in 1850, the first house of her order on German soil. But in July 1852 she was called to Düsseldorf to restructure the Theresienhospital (hospital of the Celite women ) in the old town as superior . Since the Cellitinnen saw her and her sisters from the Lower Rhine as competition and Émilie's leadership as an imposition, there were soon tensions. In 1857 she fell ill with typhoid and then had severe headaches. Until her untimely death in 1859, however, she managed to set up modern medical care in the hospital.

Her mystical bond with Jesus Christ in the tradition of Teresa of Ávila emerges from letters published in 1860 under the title Spiritual Letters . In phases of transcendence , she claims to have perceived Jesus' voice and him as the bleeding figure of Christ. Because of the increasing number of visions , she was seen by people around her as a mediator between them and Jesus. It is said to have had a great influence on the Norwegian painter Carl Halfdan Schilling , who converted to the Catholic faith in Düsseldorf in 1854. Emilie's grave is in the Joseph Chapel in Düsseldorf . The city of Düsseldorf honored her by naming the square in front of the chapel in Emilie-Schneider-Platz .

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  • Spiritual letters from Venerable Sister Emilie, Superior of the Convent of the Daughters of the Holy. Kreuz in Düsseldorf, along with a short report on her suffering and death . Düsseldorf 1860, reprint: Wienand Verlag, Cologne 1987, ISBN 978-3-43151-952-5 .

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SURNAME Schneider, Émilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Juliana (maiden name); Schneider, Julie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nun of the daughters of the holy cross
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Hair when the forest is damp
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1859
Place of death Dusseldorf