Emilie Engel

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Sister Maria Emilie Engel (born February 6, 1893 in Husten / Drolshagen ; † November 20, 1955 in Koblenz-Metternich ) was a Catholic teacher and provincial superior and died "in the name of holiness". On October 12, 1999, a beatification process was initiated.

Emilie Engel is known as superior of the Catholic Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary as part of the Schoenstatt Movement , above all as a role model in devotion to God and through her relaxed demeanor, which corresponds to the idea of ​​the Schoenstatt Church Renewal Movement of a modern believing Christian. At the same time, however, Emilie Engel is an example of an anxiety neurotic. It was only through the spiritual guidance and accompaniment of Father Josef Kentenich that she became the charismatic personality that is admired and revered by many today.

She met her mentor and teacher in the course of her work as a teacher, and he became her spiritual therapist. She suffered from anxiety since a traumatic childhood experience at the age of six and was marked by a strict religious upbringing that instills fear of a severe, punishing God. Kentenich, an experienced pastor who, in addition to his spiritual work, also had a talent as a psychologist and educator, helped the young woman out of her neurotic image of God.

An important point of this long-term therapy was the Marian approach to Kentenich's theology. Through a " covenant of love " with Maria, the young teacher was able to develop a more loving image of God within the framework of the newly developed Kentenich pedagogy . Not only did the anxiety go away, but Engel became a confident, happy woman who could live her faith without fear.

After her spiritual healing, Emilie Engel began to deal intensively with the theology of Kentenich and became one of the first Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary of the young and at the time controversial Schoenstatt Movement. In the main church of her home parish, the Church of St. Clemens (Drolshagen) , in the course of the renovation in 2016 in the right side apse of the Romanesque church, among other images, a dignifying representation of Sister Emilie in front of her parents' house in Husten can be seen.

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SURNAME Angel, Emilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Angel, Maria Emilie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Schoenstatt Sister of Mary
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Drolshagen
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1955
Place of death Koblenz-Metternich