Joseph du Sacré-Cœur
Joseph du Sacré-Cœur (in the United States also called Joseph of the Sacred Heart or Mother Joseph ), born Esther Pariseau (Parizeau) , (born April 16, 1823 in Saint-Martin (Québec) , Laval (Québec) , Canada ; † January 19, 1902 in Vancouver , Washington (state) , United States ) was a nun of the Sœurs de la charité de la Providence (Congregatio Sororum a Providentia SP ) and architect . Mother Joseph established the first branch of this congregation in the United States in 1856.
Life
Esther Pariseau, the daughter of a wheelwright , joined the congregation of the Blessed Émilie Gamelin, founded a few months earlier, on December 26, 1843 . She was dressed on July 21, 1845 and was given the religious name Joseph du Sacré-Cœur . As a result she learned nursing and parament embroidery . She was very skilled in handicrafts through her father's lessons and in all female skills and was therefore selected to set up a branch in the diocese of Nesqually , in the US state of Washington. She went to this remote area with some other sisters. They built the monastery and a school with their own hands .
In 1866, Sr. Joseph resigned as Superior of this House and became an economist in financing the offices in western Canada and the northwestern United States. From the 1870s she directed the construction of many hospitals (15), orphanages, schools (9) and educational institutions in the northwestern United States and Canada. Through this tireless construction activity, she achieved great fame. In 1894 she was appointed Provincial Councilor (Council Sister of the Province).
Until the end of her life she was busy building an orphanage. In 1902 Sr. Joseph died of a brain tumor ; her last words urged her co-sister to care for the poor at all times: “Everything that concerns the poor is always ours!” Sr. Joseph was buried in St. James Acres Catholic Cemetery in Vancouver, WA. The cemetery has been named after May 28, 2007. In addition to her tombstone, there is a statue: Mother Joseph praying with hand tools at her side.
Mother Joseph du Sacré-Cœur and Sr. Bernarda Morin contributed significantly to the worldwide expansion of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of (divine) Providence .
meaning
Mother Joseph du Sacré-Cœur is one of the first women architects in the Northwest of the USA.
The United States Congress honored Mother Joseph's work in 1980 with a bronze statue of Felix de Weldon (sculptor of the United States Marine Corps War Memorial ) in the National Statuary Hall in the Capitol, Washington . Mother Joseph is one of five US Catholic missionaries honored there. She is shown there kneeling with folded hands, with building tools lying on the base.
The city of Vancouver (Washington) also honored her with a statue; there, the Mother Joseph's Providence Academy , which was built in 1868 , as it is called today, is considered a “remarkable building”: At the time, the school with the adjoining orphanage was the largest brick building north of San Francisco .
The National Cowgirl Museum in Fort Worth , Texas has dedicated a Hall of Fame statue to her since 1981.
In Washington state, her birthday is celebrated as Mother Joseph Day .
Web links
- Joseph du Sacré-Cœur . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ).
- A History of Mother Joseph Day in Washington State
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of the Order ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : "My sisters, whatever concerns the poor is always our affair."
- ↑ Mother Joseph Catholic Cemetery
- ↑ illustration of the tombstone; there the family name Parizeau is written
- ↑ Statue with tools of the trade
- ^ Vita in The Architect of the Capitol
- ↑ Statue ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Capitol
- ↑ History of Washington State
- ↑ Women who shape the West
- ↑ Mother Joseph Day on Swmedicalcenter.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Joseph du Sacré-Cœur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Parisaeu, Esther (maiden name); Esther Parizeau; Joseph of the Sacred Heart; Mother Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sister of the Sœurs de la Charité de la Providence, Virgin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Martin, Laval (Québec) , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1902 |
| Place of death | Vancouver , Washington (State) , United States |