Emma Tirelli

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Emma Tirelli (also: Marie-Jeanne de Notre-Dame des Douleurs ; born April 11, 1886 in Parma ; † September 28, 1957 in La Seyne-sur-Mer ) was an Italian Camaldolese abbess who mainly worked in France.

life and work

An Italian Camaldolese woman in France

Emma Tirelli, who came from a middle-class background in Italy, developed a veneration for Catholic France , which had to suffer from the secular state , from 1901 and learned French. She entered the Camaldolese women's monastery in Poppi, which was founded in 1911 , where she quickly rose to become novice master and finally abbess. The entry of a French postulant reactivated her longing for France. In 1925 she sent an advance guard of four sisters to La Seyne-sur-Mer near Toulon and followed in the summer of 1926 to take over the management of the Clos Bethléem monastery (today: 378 avenue J.-B. Ivaldi , with Rita chapel ). The founding bishop was Félix Guillibert (1842–1926), who died before they even arrived.

Foundation in Poland. Construction of a Marian shrine in La Seyne-sur-Mer

The abbess's saintly charisma attracted vocations, including from Poland , and the Schlötzau Monastery was founded in Poland in 1949 . In fulfillment of a vow she had taken during the devastating bombing of the Bay of Toulon in 1943–1944, a Marian shrine was built from 1951 to 1954 with the support of Bishop Auguste Joseph Gaudel (1941–1960) in the monastery area, which quickly expanded developed into a place of pilgrimage: Sanctuaire du coeur douloureux et immaculé de Marie (Sanctuary of the Immaculate Sorrowful Heart of Mary). In 1965, Bishop Gilles Barthe consecrated the entire diocese of Fréjus-Toulon to the immaculate, aching Heart of Mary ( solemnly affirmed by Bishop Dominique Rey in 2008 ).

Death. Life of the monastery until 2018

In 1957 Abbess Marie-Jeanne de Notre-Dame des Douleurs (Maria Johanna of the Sorrowful Mother) died at the age of 71 after 30 years of service in France. Your successor should also work for 30 years. From 1959 to 2017, the sisters published 235 issues of a magazine entitled L'Appel du coeur douloureux et immaculé de Marie. Revue mariale trimestrielle. Organs du Sanctuaire du coeur douloureux et immaculé . When the French monastery began to suffer from aging, Schlötzau sent three nuns to help out in 1990, but it could not be stabilized in the long term and had to be dissolved in 2018.

Works

  • Notes de spiritualité , ed. by Louis Colin (1884–1973). Clos Bethléem, La Seyne-sur-Mer 1965 (with a preface by Bishop Barthe).

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personal data
SURNAME Tirelli, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Notre-Dame des Douleurs, Marie-Jeanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Camaldolese woman and founder of a monastery in France
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Parma
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1957
Place of death La Seyne-sur-Mer