Katharina Schynse

Katharina Schynse (born November 24, 1854 in Wallhausen (near Bad Kreuznach) , † December 9, 1935 in Pfaffendorf near Koblenz ) was the founder and general director of the "Missionary Association of Catholic Women and Virgins" in 1893, today's "Papal Missionary Organization of Catholic Women".

life and work

Katharina Schynse was the daughter of an estate manager and sister of the missionary and Africa explorer August Wilhelm Schynse . She was initially a teacher. After the death of her brother in 1893 she founded the “Association of Catholic Women and Virgins in Support of the Central African Missions of the White Fathers”, which supported the work of the Order of the White Fathers . In 1903 he expanded his sphere of activity as the “Missionary Association of Catholic Women and Virgins” beyond Africa. As early as 1910, the association was able to support the hungry regions of China with over 100,000 gold marks .

Schynse established branches in many European countries and in 1916 a branch in the United States. In 1920 the mission association had nearly 300,000 members. In 1922 a central committee was set up in Rome. As general manager, Katharina Schynse was also the editor of the association magazine Voices from the Missions . In 1942 the mission association was founded by Pope Pius XII. elevated to the rank of papal work, the Pontifical Missionary Organization of Catholic Women (PMF). It has 18,000 members in eighteen German dioceses . In 2007 a memorial for Katharina Schynse designed by the sculptor Johannes Kirsch was inaugurated in Koblenz .

literature

Gabriele Lautenschläger: Katharina Schynse. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 1245-1246. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Monika Pankoke-Schenk: Schynse, Katharina. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 92 f. ( Digitized version ).
Bruno Steimer: Lexicon of the Popes and the Papacy . Herder, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-451-22015-9 , p. 576

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Individual evidence

^ Elisabeth Gössmann , Dictionary of Feminist Theology, Gütersloher Verlagshaus G. Mohn, 2002, p. 422, ISBN 978-3-5790-0285-9

personal data
SURNAME	Schynse, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German founder of a mission society
DATE OF BIRTH	November 24, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wallhausen (near Bad Kreuznach)
DATE OF DEATH	December 9, 1935
Place of death	Pfaffendorf near Koblenz

[1] Elisabeth Gössmann , Dictionary of Feminist Theology, Gütersloher Verlagshaus G. Mohn, 2002, p. 422, ISBN 978-3-5790-0285-9