Maria Tauscher

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Blessed Maria-Teresa Tauscher van den Bosch

Maria Tauscher DCJ (born June 19, 1855 in Sandow (today Sądów) southeast of Frankfurt an der Oder ; † September 20, 1938 in Sittard , Netherlands ; actually Anna Maria Tauscher van den Bosch ) was a religious sister . She is venerated as a blessed in the Catholic Church .

Life

Anna Maria Tauscher van den Bosch came from a Protestant family, her father, Hermann Traugott Tauscher , was a Protestant pastor in Sandow and from 1865 superintendent in Berlin , her mother was Pauline van den Bosch, who was born in Haarlem (Netherlands) . In 1888 Maria Tauscher converted to the Roman Catholic Church . She then lost her post as head of an institution for the mentally ill in Cologne , where she had worked since 1885, and she broke with her parents' house. As a result, she worked under harsh conditions as a cleaning lady and washing-up assistant in a monastery . For this work she received 700  marks and founded the "Home for the Homeless" in 1891 with the permission of the Prince- Bishop 's legate , a house for needy and poor children at Pappelallee 61 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . This first Sankt-Josefsheim is still there today. At first she worked with paid staff, until several like-minded women joined her in 1893, who, together with Maria Tauscher, committed themselves to a life according to the Evangelical Councils and the Rule of the Carmelites of the Divine Heart of Jesus (DCJ). This religious community , which she founded, tries to combine life according to the rules of the Order of Mount Carmel with apostolic activity, especially in children's homes run by the order. The Berlin home housed around 120 children in 1896.

Maria Tauscher took the religious name "Maria-Teresa of St. Joseph " on. After difficult early years - no bishop initially wanted to accept a new religious community in his diocese - the community temporarily moved to Sittard in the Netherlands in 1899 ; From 1904 the motherhouse was finally relocated near Rome and the Carmel of the Divine Heart of Jesus received ecclesiastical recognition by Pope Pius X. In the meantime, the community had spread to several European countries, and in 1912 the first settlement was established in America . When Maria Tauscher died in 1938, the religious community she founded already comprised 58 monasteries with over 1000 religious sisters. There were dozen of St. Joseph's homes in Europe and the United States of America at that time, and their number continued to grow after her death. Today the Carmelites of the Divine Heart of Jesus belong to over 5000 sisters worldwide.

Sr. Maria-Teresa of St. Joseph was buried in the cemetery of the mother house of the Carmelite DCJ in Sittard. She was beatified on May 13, 2006 in the Cathedral of Roermond, Netherlands. Her portrait is next to the altar in the Sandower Church, which is now a Polish community and admires her. Her feast day in the liturgy of the Catholic Church is October 30th . In the Archdiocese of Berlin it is one of the diocese's own festivals .

Works

  • The Servant of God Mother Maria Teresa of St. Josef (Anna Maria Tauscher van den Bosch), founder of the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus (autobiography). Steyler publishing bookstore 1954

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dietrich Schröder: The good spirit of Sandow , in Märkische Oderzeitung , May 20, 2010, p. 13
personal data
SURNAME Exchange, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maria-Teresa of St. Joseph; Tauscher van der Bosch, Anna Maria; Tauscher, Maria-Teresa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder of the order, virgin, blessed
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandow near Frankfurt on the Oder
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1938
Place of death Sittard , Netherlands