Maria Hueber

Maria Hueber (born May 22, 1653 in Brixen , South Tyrol ; † July 31, 1705 there ) in the call of holiness, was the founder of the Order of the Tertiary Sisters of St. Francis .

Maria Hueber

Life

Maria Hueber was born in Brixen as the youngest of five children to parents Nikolaus Hueber and Anna Tapp. After a poor childhood - after the father had not returned from the war - she had to be entrusted by the mother to a noble family. Later Maria came back to her mother. Even as a child she was particularly pious and preferred prayer to play. As a girl, she worked in various posts in Brixen, Bozen, Innsbruck and Salzburg as a housemaid, always in contact with spiritual advisers. When she returned to Brixen from Salzburg, she cared for her sick mother and deepened her faith in a special way through intense prayer, fasting and suffering. In 1700 she founded a school for poor girls in Brixen on the impulse of the Franciscan Father Isidor Kirnigl, which she taught in reading, writing and sewing. Maria Hueber died in Brixen in 1705, already famous as a prayer and a woman who was noticed several times due to prophetic statements.

Beatification process

The beatification procedure was initiated for Maria Hueber . In the course of this, Pope Francis recognized the heroic degree of virtue on March 19, 2019 .

literature

Josef Gelmi : Maria Hueber . Athesia, Bozen 1993, ISBN 88-7014-726-6 .
Anna Elisabeth Rifeser: The piety culture of Maria Hueber (1653–1705) and the Tyrolean tertiary women . Aschendorff, Münster 2019, ISBN 978-3-402-11605-0 .

Ekkart Sauser : Maria Hueber. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 1097-1098. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Constantin von Wurzbach : Hueber, Maria . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 385 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Maria Hueber - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry to Maria Hueber on medal online
Biography on the website of the mother monastery in Brixen
Maria Hueber. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).

Individual evidence

^ Promulgazione di Decreti della Congregazione delle Cause dei Santi. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, March 19, 2019, accessed March 19, 2019 (Italian).

personal data
SURNAME	Hueber, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catholic nun, founder of the order
DATE OF BIRTH	May 22, 1653
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brixen ( South Tyrol )
DATE OF DEATH	July 31, 1705
Place of death	Brixen ( South Tyrol )

[1] Promulgazione di Decreti della Congregazione delle Cause dei Santi. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, March 19, 2019, accessed March 19, 2019 (Italian).