Gertraud from Bullion

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Gertraud von Bullion (1914, as a Red Cross sister)

Sister Gertraud von Bullion , full name Gertraud Countess von Bullion , (born September 11, 1891 in Würzburg , † June 11, 1930 in Isny ). Together with her cousin Marie Christmann, she was accepted into the Schoenstatt Movement as the first female member on December 8, 1920 . That was the founding act of the Schoenstatt Women's Association.

Life

Gertraud von Bullion was the fourth of six children of the officer Arthur Graf von Bullion and his wife Maria Theresia (née Startz). She spent her early childhood in Würzburg, where she was born; She was baptized in the year of her birth in the cathedral parish there. In 1897 the family moved to Augsburg, where they first attended the local school of the Mary Ward sisters . She received her further education up to her graduation in 1909 in various boarding schools of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Sacré-Cœur) in Riedenburg (Austria), Fontaine-l'Évêque (Belgium) and Leamington (England). In England she became a member of the Marian Congregation . She chose “Serviam - I want to serve” as her life motto.

During the First World War , Gertraud von Bullion worked from 1914 to 1918 as a volunteer Red Cross nurse in hospitals in Cambrai, France and in the Belgian towns of Mons and Hasselt . In Mons in 1917 she had her first encounter with the Schoenstatt Movement through Franz Xaver Salzhuber, a medical officer and Pallottine student, from whom she first learned more about Josef Kentenich and his "love covenant with the Mother Thrice Admirable in the Shrine". From Mons she contacted Kentenich by letter.

On December 8, 1920, she and her cousin Marie Christmann were accepted into the Schoenstatt Community. The date is considered to be the founding day of the Schoenstatt Women's Movement. Gertraud von Bullion made building up the movement her life's work.

In early January 1921 she was diagnosed with tuberculosis . She spent the time from May to October in a sanatorium in Bad Lippspringe , interrupted by participating in the first women's conference in Schoenstatt . There she was given responsibility for the northern dioceses. Between 1922 and 1930, further spa stays followed in Schömberg in the Black Forest, Geislingen an der Steige and in Isny ​​in the Allgäu.

On April 16, 1925, the first female Schoenstatt members made solemn promises (“consecration of life”). At the celebration, Father Kentenich chose a prayer written by Sister Gertraud. Despite the worsening of her illness, she continued to work intensively to build up the Schoenstatt Women's Association. On April 21, 1929, Gertraud von Bullion offered her life to help the movement flourish on the community day in Ulm. The following year she died in a hospital in Isny ​​and was buried in the cemetery of the Bullion family in Kempten.

Aftermath

In 1932 Nikolaus Lauer published her biography for the first time, which was translated into many languages ​​and repeatedly reprinted. In 1940, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the women's movement, Father Kentenich remembered Sister Gertraud in particular, who “literally consumed herself” for the movement and whose size he “stood in awe” of. Since 1967 the bell of the main building of the Schoenstatt women's movement in Vallendar has had its motto “SERVIAM” and since 1975 answers to prayer have been collected for it. In 1981 her collected writings were published.

In 1991, on the occasion of her 100th birthday in the diocese of Augsburg , preparations for the beatification process began. Research into her work in Germany, France and Belgium had already been carried out since 1978.

In 1993 the "Secretariat Gertraud von Bullion" was set up in Vallendar, which has since published communications, novenas and intercessions in various languages. The "Gertraud von Bullion House" in Vallendar was inaugurated by Bishop Viktor Josef Dammertz in July 1995 as a memorial and exhibition site .

Fonts

  • Rosary prayer with Gertraud von Bullion. 1891-1930. Published by the Schoenstatt Women's Association. Schoenstatt Publishing House, Vallendar 2010, ISBN 978-3-935396-26-4 .
  • Gertraud-Perlen (book series):
    • Part: No. 1. Encountering God in nature. Schoenstatt Publishing House, Vallendar 2010, ISBN 978-3-935396-24-0 .
    • Part: No. 2. The fascination of Maria. , Schoenstatt Publishing House, Vallendar 2010, ISBN 978-3-935396-28-8 .
    • Part: No. 3. You are worth it to me. Schoenstatt Publishing House, Vallendar 2010, ISBN 978-3-935396-33-2 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Gertraud von Bullion in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
  2. ↑ a b c d Short biography at the Schoenstatt Women's Association
  3. ↑ Gertraud von Bullion (1891 - 1909) on gertraud-von-bullion.org
  4. ↑ Gertraud von Bullion (1914 - 1920) on gertraud-von-bullion.org
  5. ↑ Gertraud von Bullion (1921-1922) on gertraud-von-bullion.org
  6. ↑ a b Gertraud von Bullion (1925 - 1932) on gertraud-von-bullion.org
  7. ↑ a b Gertraud von Bullion (1967 - 1991) on gertraud-von-bullion.org
  8. ↑ Gertraud von Bullion (1993-2005) on gertraud-von-bullion.org
personal data
SURNAME Bullion, Gertraud von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bullion, Gertraud Countess von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nun of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1930
Place of death Isny